The health and safety of Western Australian workplaces remains a priority, even during COVID-19.  As a reminder, the theme for this year's Safe Work Month in Western Australia  is ‘Staying focused on workplace health and safety’.

The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety knows that while traditional events are on hold we can still keep you up-to-date on important topics.  

Safe Work Month 2020 - Staying focused on workplace health and safety, by Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety

Safe Work Month on-demand videos

Hear from safety leaders and inspectors on:

• Message to the WA workforce from the Minister for Mines and Petroleum; Industrial Relations

• Aged care: Planning head – infection control
• Asbestos removal:  What can go wrong
• Factors that influence workplace behaviours: Are you creating conditions for a hazard or helping your workplace thrive
• Fatigue management: Fatigue management for commercial vehicle drivers
• Incident reporting: Mines safety incident and injury reporting
• Hand sanitisers: Hand sanitisers from the dangerous goods safety aspect 
• Health and hygiene management: Exposure standards review
• Health and hygiene management: Overview for WA mines
• Human factors and ergonomics principles: Applying human factors and ergonomics principles for incident prevention
• Maintenance safety performance: Maintenance hazards
• Mental health and wellbeing: Mental health and wellbeing in the resources sector
• Mines Safety (video 1): Towards 2020
• Mines Safety (video 2): Beyond 2020
• Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs): Prevention and management of work related MSDs legislation and interventions
• Occupational violence and aggression: Preventing client and service related occupational violence and aggression
• Risk and reward: Applying learnings from the research and real-life incidents to dangerous goods transport
• Safety and health representatives: Importance of SHReps
• Sleep science and fatigue management: Sleep restrictions and its effect on health, safety and productivity
• WHS legislation: Work Health and Safety legislation update
• Working safely away from the office: Negotiating the new normal of office work
• WorkSafe WA investigations: 2020 statistics

Safe Work Month webinars

• Mental health during COVID-19
• Mines Safety: Beyond 2020
• Modernisation of Work Health and Safety Laws
• WorkSafe: Occupational health and hygiene

2020 National Safe Work Month resources

Safe Work Australia National Safe Work Month website has a range of resources to download in October including:

• Join National Safe Work Month and commit to keeping people safe and healthy at work information sheet
• WHS best practice checklist for employers
• Keeping WHS a priority in your workplace information sheet
• COVID-19 WHS case studies.