Research

A biannual WHS report delivering regular insights in an Australian context.

WHS Radar

Helps people working in the WHS research space get an understanding of the breadth of projects happening across Australia.

Australian WHS Research Database

Subcontractor management in construction

Supporting small business

Small business in construction

Small business regulation 

Respect @ Work

Electrical Perceptions in Agriculture

Assessing the effectiveness of using an AI-powered app to boost workplace wellbeing.

Improving workplace wellbeing with AI

Digital multilingual safety compliance and advice via visual, voice and audio technologies

Supporting safety in the linguistically diverse community

WHS Management Tool for AI

Work health and safety harms affecting in-home carers

Strengthening the Priority of WHS for Business Leaders

Identifying WHS challenges to an ageing population in different industries.

Ageing in nursing and construction

Non-Destructive Digging and Asbestos Contaminated Soils

Preparing for the future of work

Regulator Readiness

Social supports for young construction workers’ health and safety

Conversations about life, health, and safety

Examining the WHS pressures on farmers from an increasingly variable climate.

Emerging work health and safety impacts on farmers

Exploring interventions and strategies towards the creation and support of mentally healthy workplaces.

Mentally Healthy Workplaces

Preparing a protocol and scorecard to guide the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence for positive work health and safety outcomes.

Ethical use of artificial intelligence in the workplace

Designing a best practice model to advance psychosocially safe work from alternate locations

Flexible work and psychosocial safety

Investigating the psychological barriers to accepting advice from thinking machines in the workplace.

Trusting artificial intelligence at work

Understanding the harms associated with welding fumes, the industry and its practices to reduce future exposure.

Welding fume harms

Using a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model in understanding exposure to traumatic events.

Preventing psychological harm in first responder organisations.

A practical toolkit to guide organisations to design a healthy, safe and sustainable work for older workers.

The Healthy Older Worker toolkit

Collaborative robotics and their growing presence in our workplaces.

Working safely with collaborative robots

A review of non-monetary orders.

Responsive Sentencing

What are the current WHS issues facing Aboriginal workers and businesses in NSW?

Work health and safety harms affecting Aboriginal workers and businesses

How effective are e-mental health services? Can we identify patterns to inform prevention, intervention and treatment of mental health conditions?

Mental health in remote and rural farming communities

Exploring the link between mental and emotional health factors and the risk of workplace injury.

The link between workplace stressors and physical injury

Understanding the WHS context in the food delivery sector of the gig economy.

Gig economy roles and responsibilities in WHS

Developing evidence-based strategies to improve the health of truck drivers.

Driving Health: National Transport Industry Health and Wellbeing Study

Using technology to improve WHS outcomes.

Building Information Modelling (BIM) for WHS management

Why are aged care workers still experiencing injuries?

Musculoskeletal disorders from patient handling

How well are enforcement tools and interventions working?

Understanding effective enforcement tools

Small business: Easy to do WHS

Industry Specific Safety Climate Tool

Developing leadership skills to improve safety culture and machine safety in manufacturing.

Using machinery safely

What's causing electrical harm and what can we do to reduce it?

Reducing electrical harm

Exploring the scope and definition of work health.

Work health survey

A review of serious crane incidents in NSW.

Crane safety in construction

An evidence-based approach to identifying high risk workplaces.

WHS Rating