Maintaining a safe workplace is everyone’s responsibility. This section offers information and tools to help you manage risks and protect health, safety and wellbeing.
Everything you need to know about worker’s compensation insurance, whether you’re an employer needing to insure your workers or a worker who’s been injured at work.
Your rehabilitation and return to work journey will be easier if you know your options, the steps to take, and who’s responsible for what.
Information about work health and safety and electrical licensing, registration and training.
Learn about the Acts, Regulations and codes of practice we are responsible for and find information on workplace inspections and prosecutions.
Find health and safety information and guidance about your industry and the kind of work you do.
A listing of useful resources available on the website. Use the in-page search or filters to find what you need.
Read the May 2023 edition of eSAFE Rural newsletter.
There’s still time to enter the 2023 farm safety calendar competition, but be quick – the competition closes on Friday, 23 June 2023.
Yes, we’re the sunshine state, but that doesn’t mean we’re always warm…lots of areas across the southwest region experience deeply cold temperatures in winter and operating safely in these conditions is paramount.
A run of deaths and serious injuries involving tractors has prompted a call for agriculture businesses to ensure all workers, young and old, are aware of how to operate tractors safely.
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland and the Electrical Safety Office are proud participants of ag events across the state. Our safety representatives and advocates were at the Mareeba field day – and in June they’ll be heading to AgGrow in Emerald.
It’s tough working the land in the harsh Australian climate, often in remote and isolated conditions. At times it can feel lonely, too quiet, like no one really understands what you’re going through.
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) will celebrate the changemakers who go the extra mile to ensure the health, safety, and wellbeing of their colleagues – or support those returning after an injury.