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November 2025

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Psychosocial safety takes centre stage in Safe Work Month

Held nationally each October, Safe Work Month and Queensland Mental Health Week are initiatives dedicated to promoting safe, healthy workplaces and supporting mental health and wellbeing for everyone, while also raising awareness and reducing stigma around mental illness.
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Focus on Crystalline Silica Substances: Air monitoring

Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking have a legal duty to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers and identifying risks associated with hazardous substances in the workplace.
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Understand your responsibilities for audiometric testing

Recent changes to the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 have made it a requirement of employers to provide audiometric testing for workers who use personal protective equipment due to the risk of hearing loss associated with noise that exceeds the exposure standards for noise.
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Secure construction sites ahead of storm season

With the holiday season fast approaching and some construction sites moving into Christmas closure periods, remember to ensure your site is safe and secure.
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Be aware of Melioidosis this wet season

As the wet season approaches in Queensland, workers need to remember to take measures to avoid the risk of melioidosis, which can be found in the soil and is a risk after high rainfall.
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Falling objects compliance campaign coming in 2026

In early 2026, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland will begin a statewide proactive compliance campaign targeting the risk of falling objects in the construction industry.
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