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.
Just like every other workplace, work health and safety laws apply to sex work.
These laws apply anywhere that sex work happens, including in brothels, hotel rooms, massage shops where sex work services are provided, in homes and online.
Work Health and Safety Guidance now exists to keep sex workers safe at work. This Guidance comes from Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.
It covers the types of workplace health and safety risks and hazards unique to sex work, and who's responsible for addressing them.
It also explains the rights and responsibilities of sex workers and sex work businesses and how everyone needs to work together to ensure safe and healthy work practices are adopted in their workplaces.
Read more at worksafe.qld.gov.au/sex-work.