Hosting your Safe Work Month activity

Start conversations about why WHS matters and what motivates you to work safely by creating a personal safety message to share with your team.

• Poster display: Download and print our posters and place them in visible areas around your workplace to keep key safety messages front of mind.
• “Why I work safe” wall (physical or virtual): Write, submit or pin photos of who or what motivates you to work safe every day.
• Selfie video: Produce a short video of ‘What motivates you to work safe?’ and post it on your online communication channels. Show us your selfie video by tagging us.
• Lessons learned: Share an incident from your work experience and how it influenced your approach to safety.
• Safety action calendar: Create a calendar with a simple WHS task to complete each week, such as starting a safety conversation, reviewing a procedure or conduct workplace inspection.

Support worker health and wellbeing through activities that encourage healthy, safe and sustainable work practices.

• Move for health challenge: Schedule short movement breaks, walking meetings or team step-count challenges, with leaders modelling healthy and sustainable work practices.
• Lunch and learn sessions: Organise online or in-person lunch and learn sessions where workers can hear from subject matter experts, learn about relevant WHS topics and ask questions in an informal setting.
• Wellbeing check-ins: Encourage managers and supervisors to use one-on-one conversations to check in on workers’ wellbeing and discuss any WHS concerns they may have.

• Mindfulness reset: Set aside one minute during your regular team meeting to help workers pause, refocus and return to their tasks with a clear mind using the STOP technique:

  S: stop what you're doing
  T: take a breath
  O: observe how you're feeling
  P: proceed with awareness
  (Add calming music for a more mindful atmosphere).

• Join our webinars: Organise a team participation or encourage workers to view our Safe Work Month webinars and use them to start a conversation about health and safety.

Raise awareness and help workers understand how today’s choices can affect their long-term health and wellbeing.

• Meet future you: Ask your workers to reflect on what they want to still be able to do in 10 years and what safe choices they can make today to help make that possible.
• Safety video on loop: Play a safety video in a shared space such as a lunchroom or break room to prompt discussion about the long-term impact of workplace injuries and illnesses.
• Team stretch break: Get everyone moving with a group stretch session. Ask your workers to nominate songs for a warm-up playlist and take turns leading stretches to help reduce the risk of injury.
• Wellness expert session: Invite a health or wellbeing expert to share practical tips on maintaining long-term physical or mental health via a webinar, toolbox talk or in-person session.

Turn awareness into action with activities that everyone can take part in.

• Safety crossword puzzle: Set up a WHS crossword puzzle or a safety challenge.
• Safe start huddle: In your pre-start meeting or team huddle, ask each team member to share one thing they can improve to finish a task safely that day.
• Lunch break trivia: Print a WHS quiz or leave conversation starter cards in the kitchen or break rooms to encourage conversations about health and safety.
• Organise SafeTea: Host a SafeTea (morning tea) for your workers to talk all about safety. 
• Safe Work Month takeaway: Ask your workers to identify one new thing they have learned during the month and explain how they will apply it in their everyday role going forward.