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Campaign

Farm safety calendar competition

Order your free 2025 Farm safety calendar today and check out the 12 winning drawings that feature in the calendar!

11 September 2024
Video

Sandy's story

Townsville aged care nurse Sandra's resilience, together with support from WorkCover and her employer, helped her to get back to work after an injury.

16 January 2024
Video

Sex work - WHS overview

From 1 August 2024, work health and safety (WHS) laws will apply to all sex work businesses operating in Queensland. In consultation with industry, guidance material specific to sex work has been developed to explain worker's rights and duty holder responsibilities under WHS laws.

23 July 2024
Statistics

Research

Workplace Health and Safety Queensland's (WHSQ) harm index and associated heat maps can be used when developing educational, advisory, intervention and leadership programs that are aimed at reducing the incidence of workplace health and safety deaths, injury and illness.

4 June 2020
Statistics

Regulator legislative updates

Workers' compensation and return to work data and information is available from a number of sources.

1 July 2024
Statistics

Reports

View WHS and Workers' Compensation scheme reports and statistics.

28 August 2019
Video

Sex work – Working safely

Here we explain some simple examples duty holders can take to ensure that sex workers can operate safely, no matter what type of business the workplace is or where it is located.

23 July 2024
Guide

If an injury or illness occurs

The steps to take—from making sure people are safe to reporting injuries and making a claim.

30 August 2024
Video

What is meant by reasonable management action?

In Queensland, mental injury claims caused by reasonable management action, when it’s taken in a reasonable way, are excluded from workers’ compensation.

1 October 2024
Publication

WorkCover Queensland annual reports

WorkCover Queensland annual reports are a record of our finanical and non-financial performance. It also explains who we are, what we do, and how we do it.

29 September 2023
Video

John's story

Making the roads safer is Senior Constable John Kenworthy’s passion – in fact, since joining the Queensland Police Service and becoming a motorcycle traffic officer, he has built a career around it.

22 August 2023
Video

Glen's story

Glen Bennett's life changed after he was involved in an horrific truck crash. Having strong family connections, support from WorkCover and NIISQ and goal-setting have been crucial to his positive mindset and ongoing recovery.

22 June 2023