Australian Institute of Health & Safety

29/04/2026

AIHS Chair Celia Antonovsky was featured on SBS News as part of national coverage marking Workers’ Memorial Day, reinforcing the importance of treating psychosocial hazards with the same urgency as physical risks in workplace health and safety.

This formed part of SBS’s broader coverage reflecting on those who have lost their lives because of work and the continued need to strengthen prevention across both physical and psychosocial risks.

28/04/2026

Today, the AIHS joined the Workers’ Memorial Day service in Victoria to honour those who have lost their lives because of workplace injury, illness and disease, and to stand alongside families, colleagues and the broader community in remembrance.

Every workplace death is one too many.

27/04/2026

Today we acknowledge Workers’ Memorial Day and the World Day for Safety, remembering those who have lost their lives at work and the families, colleagues and communities affected by that loss.

Workers’ Memorial Day is also an opportunity to recommit to prevention across both physical and psychosocial risks. One death is one death too many. Strengthening how organisations identify and manage psychosocial hazards remains essential to protecting workers now and into the future.

13/04/2026

For the first time, we’re taking the OHS Body Of Knowledge 'Occupational Road Use' series around Australia, with Chapter breakfast discussions being held across multiple cities.

These sessions explore new OHS BoK chapters developed as part of the Comprehensive Perspectives on Occupational Road Use program, supported by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator, and form an important part of our broader work to strengthen understanding of work-related road risk as a workplace health and safety issue.

Join us in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne or Perth to connect with peers and reflect on what these new chapters mean for practice across heavy vehicle safety, crash investigation, vulnerable road users, systems thinking and the mental health of occupational road users.

Places are limited at each location. View sessions and register here:

05/03/2026

This month, we reached out to the Australian Institute of Health & Safety to explore why global collaboration is essential for advancing health and safety.

05/03/2026

To recognise International Women’s Day this Sunday, 8 March, the Australian Institute of Health & Safety has released a new position on managing work-related sexual harassment risk.

Workplace sexual harassment remains prevalent in Australian workplaces, and women are disproportionately affected. It is also preventable. Our position calls on organisations to recognise sexual harassment as a workplace health and safety risk and embed prevention into everyday WHS systems, leadership and work design.

03/03/2026

Join us in welcoming our INSHPO Board of Directors Executive Council for 2026. Paul Belair from BCRSP (Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals) will lead the board as president, with Cameron Montgomery from AIHS (Australian Institute of Health & Safety) joining as Vice President, and Ashok Garlapati from BCSP (Board of Certified Safety Professionals), also new to the Executive Council, taking on the role of Treasurer.

03/03/2026

Thirteen years after Glenn Newport died while working in temperatures exceeding 40 degrees, Australia still does not have a nationally consistent, enforceable heat standard for worksites, despite conditions becoming more frequent and more severe.

The AIHS has identified climate change as an intensifying workplace health and safety risk. Our Position on Climate Change and Work Health and Safety calls for hazards such as heat stress to be systematically embedded into WHS frameworks and guidance, not treated as seasonal or ad hoc issues.

Professionals across exposed sectors are already seeing the impacts. Climate change is a workplace health and safety issue. Our systems and policy settings need to reflect that reality.

It has been 13 years since Jenny Newport's son died from extreme heat while on a worksite in Queensland. She believes not much has changed.

19/02/2026

18/02/2026

We are delighted to welcome our NSW community to the 2026 AIHS NSW Safety Symposium, officially underway this morning at the Sydney Cricket Ground. With the event now sold out, it is fantastic to see such strong engagement from across the profession.

The day has commenced with opening remarks from Aaron Boyes and Ben Kirkbride, followed by a keynote address from SafeWork NSW Commissioner Janet Schorer.

18/02/2026

Apprentices are the future of Australia’s workforce. They deserve safe, respectful workplaces from day one.

In Victoria alone, employers have been fined $7.38 million over the past five years for failing to protect apprentices. Sixty-six prosecutions. More than 3,000 accepted injury claims. Tragically, five young lives were lost. One death is one too many.

Young workers are most at risk in their first six months on the job. They often lack experience, confidence and the power to speak up, especially when unsafe behaviour comes from those in leadership positions.

No job is worth a life. No training pathway should come with fear, injury, bullying or abuse.

WorkSafe Victoria has prosecuted 66 employers over apprentice safety breaches in five years, issuing $7.38 million in penalties and warning of severe consequences for failures involving young workers.

13/02/2026

More than 70 per cent of the global workforce is exposed to excessive heat each year. In Australia, heat is a leading cause of work-related hospitalisations.

With extreme temperatures affecting workers across construction, logistics, events, agriculture and more, the AIHS is calling for stronger prevention measures to reduce fatigue, heat stress and injury.

Our latest media release outlines what workplaces can do now: