- Better Work Tasmania events are live-streamed and recorded. If you can’t make it to an event, you can catch up with the videos linked below.
Abrasive blasting
Ageing workforce
- Discussion panel on ageing workforce issues (external link)
- Longer working lives and strategies (external link)
- Mental health issues and the public sector (external link)
- The ageing workforce and workability (external link)
Alcohol and drugs
Airborne contaminants
- Asbestos awareness for new workers (external link)
- Managing exposures in construction work: Sydney Metro (external link)
- Workplace carcinogens (external link)
Animal handling
- Safe Farming Tasmania program (external link)
- Primary Employers Tasmania's AgCard – Clare Peltzer (external link)
Asbestos
Better Work Tasmania general
- About Better Work Tasmania (external link)
- Elise Archer introduces 11th Better Work Tasmania session: mentally safe and healthy workplaces (external link)
- General information about Better Work Tasmania (external link)
- Networking opportunities with Better Work Tasmania: Lion Group (external link)
Biological hazards
Bushfires
Carcinogens
Code of practice
Communication, consultation and collaboration
- Communicating work health and safety (external link)
- Improving business performance (external link)
- Practical ways to communicate safety (external link)
- Improving business performance (external link)
Confined spaces
Construction
- Blue Hats – a Tasmanian Mental Health Program in the Construction Industry (external link)
- Construction WHS: VOS construction (external link)
- COVID-19 Best Practice Guidelines for the Building and Construction Industry (BCI) (external link)
- Crane safety in the construction industry (external link)
- Improving construction workers' health and safety (external link)
Contractor management
- Contract management: VOS construction (external link)
- Contractor management in the public sector (external link)
- Construction work health and safety: VOS construction (external link)
Culture and leadership
- Creating the right safety climate: Tassal Ltd (external link)
- Culture and design at work (construction sector) (external link)
- Culture and leadership: emotional intelligence (external link)
- Importance of leadership in creating positive work health and safety cultures (external link)
- Leading teams: cluster approach (external link)
- Leadership, culture and individual achievement (external link)
- Leading indicators and worker wellbeing (external link)
- Respectful behaviours (external link)
Dangerous goods
- Dangerous goods overview: WorkSafe Tasmania (external link)
- Global harmonised system (GHS) overview (external link)
- Implementation of GHS: University of Tasmania (external link)
- Major hazard facilities (MHF) (external link)
- Major event management at LPG storage facility (external link)
Design of work
Diving safety (diving work)
- Work health and safety in the fisheries sector overview: Tasmanian Seafood Industry Council (external link)
- Diving safety: critical points (external link)
Electrical risks
Emergency management
Falls from heights
Fatigue management (fatigue)
- Tools to improve transport safety: University of Tasmania (external link)
- Tools to improve harvesting and haulage safety: University of Tasmania (external link)
- Use of wearables in fatigue safety (external link)
First aid
Fisheries
- Creating the right safety climate: Tassal Ltd (external link)
- Diving safety: critical points (external link)
- Fisheries sector overview: WorkSafe Tasmania (external link)
- Huon Aquaculture: alcohol and drugs approach (external link)
- WHS in the fisheries sector overview: Tasmanian Seafood Industry Council (external link
Forestry
- Analysis of forestry work accidents in Australia: University of the Sunshine Coast (external link)
- Forestry log haulage: registered code of practice (external link)
- Overview of forestry sector: WorkSafe Tasmania (external link)
- Overview of work health and safety in forestry sector: Arbre Forest Industries and career hub (external link)
- Tools to improve harvesting and haulage safety: University of Tasmania (external link)
Global harmonised system (GHS)
- Global harmonised system (GHS) overview (external link)
- Implementation of GHS: University of Tasmania (external link)
Hazard substances (hazardous chemicals safety)
- Asbestos awareness for new workers (external link)
- Major event management at LPG storage facility (external link)
- Workplace carcinogens (external link)
Health and wellbeing
- Bullying in the workplace
- Chronic health disorders and workplaces: Menzies Institute for for Medical Research (external link)
- Health, wellbeing and leading performance indicators: Monash Business School (external link)
- Health and wellbeing in the cricket world (external link)
- Leading indicators and worker wellbeing (external link)
- MyWellbeing at ReturntoWorkSA (external link)
Health care
- Caring for people with obesity (external link)
- Health and community services: Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (external link)
- Health and community services: Neroli Ellis (external link)
- Key messages for infection prevention and control (external link)
- Managing violence and aggression (external link)
Heights
- Comment from WorkSafe Tasmania (external link)
- Horse racing falls research findings: Menzies Institute of Medical Research (external link)
Herbicide
- Safe Farming Tasmania program (external link)
- Dangerous goods overview: WorkSafe Tasmania (external link)
Hit by moving object
Horse and stable safety
Industry sector overviews
- Forestry sector: Arbre Forest Industries and career hub (external link)
- Health and community services: Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (external link)
- Health and community services: Neroli Ellis (external link)
- Mining sector: Australian Mines and Mineral Association (external link)
- TasPorts work health and safety (external link)
- Transport sector: Tasmanian transport association (external link)
Infection control
Lead work
Legal matters
Learning/Education
- Welcome/overview of learning and induction platforms - Ginna Webster, Secretary, DOJ - Tasmania (external link)
- WorkSafe Tasmania WHS learning modules - General, Retail & Hospitality (external link)
- Tasmanian Fruit Industry Worker Induction Program - Dr. Michael Tarbath (external link)
- Head 4 Work – Robert Greenwell TCCI (external link)
- Primary Employers Tasmania's AgCard – Clare Peltzer (external link)
Loading/unloading freight
LP gas cylinders
- Working safely: TasNetworks (external link)
- Major event management at LPG storage facility (external link)
Major Hazard Facilities (MHFs)
- Major hazard facilities (MHF): WorkSafe Tasmania (external link)
- Major event management at LPG storage facility (external link)
- Risks and challenges and approaches to work health and safety: Nyrstar (external link)
Manual tasks (hazardous manual tasks)
Mental health and wellbeing
- Blue Hats – a Tasmanian Mental Health Program in the Construction Industry (external link)
- Building programs to provide mental health support in the workplace (external link)
- Bullying in the workplace (external link)
- Complex claims involving mental health: Wesfarmers Group (external link)
- Creating mentally healthy workplaces (external link)
- Integrating mentally healthy workplaces: a strategic approach: Dr Niki Ellis (external link)
- Integrating mental health support with performance management: OzHelp (external link)
- Mental Health Champions in the Workplace – options for implementation
- Mental health first aid for workplaces: University of Melbourne (external link)
- Mental illness: what to look out for and what to do (external link)
- MyWellbeing at ReturntoWorkSA (external link)
- Overcoming stigma of mental health: mining sector (external link)
- Overcoming stigma of mental health: rural sector (external link)
- Overview of best practice integrating mental health and wellbeing: Prof Tony LaMontagne
- Overview of workplace mental health and best practice approaches: Dr Angela Martin (external link)
- Organisational approach to mental health (external link)
- Psychological health and the impact on workplaces (external link)
- What does a mentally healthy workplace look like? (external link)
- What works for mindfulness training: University of Tasmania (external link)
- People at Work (PAW) Paul Kilby (WorkSafe Tasmania), Aislin Campbell and Natalie Dunton (external link)
Mobile plant
Mines
- Overcoming stigma of mental health: mining sector (external link)
- Overview of mining sector: Australian Mines and Mineral Association (external link)
- Management of principal mining hazard: WorkSafe Tasmania (external link)
Outdoor work
Overhead and underground power lines (working near overhead power lines)
Performance monitoring
- Analysis of forestry work accidents in Australia: University of the Sunshine Coast (external link)
- Health, wellbeing and leading performance indicators: Monash Business School (external link)
- Overview of public sector work health and safety: WorkSafe Tasmania (external link)
- MyWellbeing at ReturntoWorkSA (external link)
Plant and equipment
PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)
- Complex PTSD (external link)
- Future challenges (external link)
- Personal journey with PTSD (external link)
- PTSD treatment guidelines (external link)
- PTSD: making it real (external link)
- Skills based interventions (external link)
- What PTSD looks like across workplaces (external link)
Public sector
- Claims overview: WorkSafe Tasmania (external link)
- Integrating mental health support with performance management: OzHelp (external link)
- Mental health issues and the public sector (external link)
- MyWellbeing at ReturntoWorkSA (external link)
- Overview of public sector work health and safety: WorkSafe Tasmania (external link)
Quad bikes (quad bike safety)
Regulator views
- Forestry (external link)
- Hazardous substances/dangerous goods (external link)
- Major hazard facilities (external link)
- Mining (external link)
- Public sector (external link)
Return to work
- Successful return to work learnings (external link)
- MyWellbeing at ReturntoWorkSA (external link)
- Complex claims involving mental health: Wesfarmer Group (external link)
Rural sector
- Mental illness: what to look out for and what to do (external link)
- Overcoming stigma of mental health: rural sector(external link)
- Safe Farming Tasmania program (external link)
- Primary Employers Tasmania's AgCard – Clare Peltzer (external link)
- Tasmanian Fruit Industry Worker Induction Program - Dr. Michael Tarbath (external link)
Silicosis (silica dust)
- Managing exposures in construction work: Sydney Metro (external link)
- Workplace carcinogens (external link)
- Silicosis: New lessons from old disease (Prof Graeme Zosky)
- Environment, exposure standards and airborne monitoring ( Richard Jackson)
- Engineering control measures to reduce exposure (Dr Martin Stirling)
- Respiratory protection and fit testing (Mark Reggers)
- Health Surveillance programs (Chris Davey)
- Worksafe Tasmania update
Slips, trips and falls
Sports
- Horse racing falls research findings: Menzies Institute (external link)
- Health and wellbeing in the cricket world (external link)
Spray painting and powder coating
Supply chains
Systems management
- Communicating work health and safety (external link)
- Creating the right safety climate: Tassal Ltd (external link)
- Culture and design at work: construction sector (external link)
- Leading indicators for work health and safety, wellbeing (external link)
- Leading teams: cluster approach (external link)
- Importance of leadership in creating positive work heath and safety cultures (external link)
Tractors
Traffic management
Transport sector
- Health heads in trucks and sheds (external link
National Transport Commission part 1 (external link) and part 2 (external link) - Overview of WHS in transport sector: TTC (external link)
RAW – Workplace Alive & Well (external link) - Safe handling of mixed freight (external link)
- Successful return to work learnings (external link)
- Transport sector: Tasmanian Transport Association (external link)
- Tools to improve transport safety: University of Tasmania (external link)
- Use of wearables in fatigue safety (external link)
- WorkSafe Tasmania (external link)
Violence and aggression
- Identifying and de-escalating violence and aggression (external link)
- Managing violence and aggression (external link)
Working in hot and cold environments
Where to next
See current Better Work Events
WHS & Wellbeing Leaders, Champions and Peer Support
