Healthy work survey
The Healthy work survey is a free, confidential tool designed to assist businesses in assessing and managing the more common workplace health risks to protect and promote the long-term health and wellbeing of their workers.
The survey can help businesses to strengthen the health of their workers by providing insights into how the design of work can protect and promote worker health. Following completion of the survey, a summary of results is sent directly to the business.
What the survey covers
The survey provides a snapshot of common workplace health topics, including:
Work health
- Sedentary work
- Fatigue
- Work ability
- Physical work environment
- Psychosocial work environment
- Sprain and strains
Worker health
- General health and wellbeing
- Physical activity
- Eating choices
- Body mass index
- Alcohol consumption
- Smoking/vaping
Demographic snapshot
How to complete the survey
Once you have registered for the survey, a link will be emailed to you for distribution to your workers to complete.
The survey will be open for 4 weeks and once this time has passed, a summary of the results will be emailed to you.
Once you receive the link to the survey, share this with your workers advising them what insights you are trying to gain and how these results will help strengthen the business.
Ensure that workers know that the results are anonymous so they can be honest in their responses without fear of repercussion.
After 4 weeks have passed you will be sent a report with your business results.
Use the insights gained in the report to identify health hazards and priorities in your workplace.
Engage staff in consultation and use the report to prioritise the handling of issues identified and implement control measures.
This is an ongoing process – The workplace can be an environment of frequent and rapid change. For this reason, risk management is not a one-off exercise. It is recommended that workplaces repeat the healthy work survey on a regular basis (for example, every 12-18 months).
Benefits for your business
Completing the survey assists businesses by:
- providing an insight into work health
- outlining a clear, structured starting point for action
- building a culture of consultation, transparency and care.
More information and resources
Frequently asked questions
The survey will take each worker approximately 10-15 minutes. There is no ability to save results and return—it must be completed in one sitting.
The survey is open for four weeks and the person who registered for the survey will be sent a reminder two weeks before the survey closes.
No, there is no option to extend the survey.
No, the survey cannot be reopened.
The survey is anonymous for workers to complete, and all respondent data is de-identified. Businesses will receive an aggregated report of the data—raw data is not available.
Workers can request a summary of their personal results sent to an email of their choice before they submit the survey. This email is not stored in the system the individual report is sent directly to the individual. This is not shared with the business.
The survey can be completed multiple times by different respondents from the same device.
The survey can be accessed from mobiles, tablets, laptops and desktops. It is also supported by the Queensland Government browser support list.
The information provided in the system will be stored within a secured Data Centre within Australia.