Occupational Health Safety & Welfare (OHS&W)

Ensuring the health, safety and well-being of all staff is an essential goal of workforce development. Employers and employees obligations concerning workplace health and safety vary across jurisdictions.

For more information on workplace OHS&W across different jurisdictions see the following websites:

• National: Safework Australia & The National Safety Council of Australia
• QLD: WorkSafe
• NSW: Workcover New South Wales
• VIC: WorkSafe Victoria
• TAS: Workplace Standards Tasmania
• ACT: WorkSafe ACT
• NT: NT WorkSafe
• SA: SafeWork SA
• WA: Department of Commerce WorkSafe WA

One important issue concerning the health and wellbeing of AOD workers is stress and burnout. For more information on this topic see the Worker Wellbeing page of this website.

Sample OHS&W policies can be found at the Our Community Policy Bank website and the ACT Council of Social Service Organisations Information Kit website.