Health and safety guidance and resources for businesses that publish information to the internet, in newspapers or magazines; or broadcast to radio or television. As well as businesses that provide internet, telephone, software or data services.
Information media and telecommunications
CampaignsAll campaigns
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Safe Work Month and Mental Health Week 2025
Held nationally each October, Safe Work Month and Queensland Mental Health Week are initiatives dedicated to promoting safe, healthy workpla...
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Queensland Mental Health Week
Mental Health Week, celebrated annually in October, promotes the importance of mental health and wellbeing.
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Work Well Awards 2023
More than 111 organisations and individuals entered this year’s Work Well Awards, demonstrating their dedication to making Queensland workpl...
NewsAll news
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Identifying secondary mental injuries allows for better early intervention
Early identification and recording of secondary mental injuries or illness supports workers getting help sooner. This early intervention has...
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Calling for Expressions of Interest for the Work Health and Safety Industry Sector Standing Committees
The Office of Industrial Relations (OIR) is seeking nominations for consideration by the Minister for appointment to a new term of the Indus...
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Updated Allied Health fees – effective 1 August 2025
WorkCover Queensland has completed its annual update of the Allied Health Services Table of Costs for the 2025-2026 financial year. The upda...
EventsAll events
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Mentally healthy workplaces workshops 2025
Designed for managers and supervisors, you’ll be equipped with foundational skills to identify, assess and manage risks to psychological hea...
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Mental Health in the Agriculture industry webinar
Join us for a free webinar during Queensland Mental Health Week, spotlighting psychosocial hazards in rural and regional industries.
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Queensland Mental Health Week Breakfast
Join us in person at a breakfast event during Queensland mental health week.
Alerts
All alerts
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Incident alert
Four workers injured in three separate falls from roofing incidentsThree recent incidents where workers have suffered serious injuries have highlighted the dangers of falls from heights.
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Incident alert
Worker fatally injured by gateA worker died after a large steel sliding gate fell on him.
HazardsAll hazards
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Ceiling spaces
There are serious electrical safety and other risks involved with working in ceiling spaces. It’s important to understand and manage these b...
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Hazardous dusts
All airborne dust is hazardous to health. Dust can contain a range of materials including sand, dirt, pollen, minerals, wood, micro-organism...
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Heat stress
Working in hot and/or humid environments can be uncomfortable, but more importantly lead to a heat-related illness, which can be fatal. This...
Codes of practiceAll codes of practice
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Important legislation and code of practice updates for the dive industry
The Recreational Diving, Recreational Technical Diving and Snorkelling Code of Practice supports the Act and Regulation.
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Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination Code of Practice 2021 changes
Queensland has now updated the Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination Code of Practice 2021 (PDF, 0.47 MB) to ref...
Commencement date: 1 March 2021 -
Managing the risk of psychosocial hazards at work Code of Practice 2022
The Managing the risk of psychosocial hazards at work Code of Practice 2022 is a practical guide on how to prevent harm from psychosocial ha...
Commencement date: 1 April 2023
Services
All services
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WorkCover Connect for employers
Manage your claims and policy with our free online service.
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Check insurance cover
Check to see if an employer has a current accident insurance policy.
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Hazardous chemical notifications
Make a hazardous chemical notification to Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.
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Electrical licence holder search
You can check the status of electrical contractor licence numbers through our online Electrical Licence Search.
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Electrical contractor self-audit
This self-audit is designed to help you better understand and meet your key electrical safety obligations.
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High risk work online register
An online register of high risk work licencees.
Guides
All guides
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Working safely on billboards near powerlines
Working near powerlines can be fatal. Touching them or straying into the exclusion zone around them can result in a serious electric shock.
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Working safely near powerlines
A brochure providing step by step advice on working safely around powerlines including exclusion zones (2 pages).
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Protection from eye injuries
Workers can sustain eye injuries when exposed to airborne fragments from work processes such as cutting, drilling or grinding metal, timber or other materials.
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Supervisor Quick Reference Guide: Supporting workers to recover after a work injury
This quick reference guide offers essential actions and resources to help supervisors support their injured worker's through the WorkCover claim process.
Tools
All tools
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Elevating work platform annual or third party inspection checklist
Use this checklist to perform and record inspections
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Heat stress calculator
This assessment tool can be used as a basic guide and/or training tool to help identify and manage risks of heat related illness.
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Tools
These four statistics-based tools can help you manage your business. They are time-lost claims by year and industry, the industry comparative calculator, the re...
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People at work
People at Work is a psychosocial risk assessment process to help identify and manage risks to the psychological health at work.
VideosAll videos
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Delayed injury reporting and the impact on employer liability
In this webinar recording, WorkCover Queensland Senior Lawyer, Tim Loos, welcomes guest presenters Carl Moseling and Sam Poncini, of McInnes...
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Recent caselaw insights: Employer liability in the workplace
In this webinar recording, WorkCover Queensland Senior Lawyer, Trina Cash, along with guest presenters Ed Zappert and Andrew Hall of Crown L...
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Case study - People at Work - Holy Cross Services
In this video, Cameron, their Learning and Development Advisor, shares how the program’s tools are helping to identify training gaps, improv...
Case studiesAll case studies
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Print machine operator fails to establish employer liability in hand injury claim
Nemet v Hally Labels Pty Limited [2025] QDC. The Plaintiff in this case failed to establish that the defendant had breached its duty of care...
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Judgement ruled in favour of Plaintiff in PTSD case
The Plaintiff was a 27-year-old former aged care worker, who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of a sexual assault at work...
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The home: another place of employment where workplace injuries can occur
Working from home creates an additional place of employment in which the employer must take steps to do what is reasonably practicable to en...
Forms
All forms
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Form 29 - superceded by Form 17 - Review of decision
Form 29 is superceded by Form 17. Form 17 allows a business or indiviual to apply for an internal review of a decision under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011...
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Injured worker authorisation
A form whereby an injured worker authorises the communication of information between their medical provider and employer in relation to their worker's compensat...
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Group training record
A sample form to use in recording workers' training
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Suitable duties program
For employers to complete. This two-page template creates a four week return to work plan.
Podcasts
All podacts
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Providing a psychologically safe and positive workplace
Creating a psychologically safe workplace to improve health outcomes and reduce absenteeism and compensation claims.
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Navigating psychosocial hazards and factors within the workplace
Tanya Orszulak from the Psychological Health Unit talked to 4BC Radio about Mental Health Week and how to navigate psychosocial hazards and factors within the w...