Today is World Day for Safety and Health at Work

Tuesday, 28 April 2026 is World Day for Safety and Health at Work (World Day) and this year the International Labour Organization’s theme focuses on ensuring a healthy psychosocial working environment for all.

With the potential to harm workers’ psychological and physical health and contribute to safety risks, psychosocial hazards arise from the working environment, workplace machinery or equipment, design or management of work, or workplace interactions and behaviours that can cause psychological and physical harm.

Psychosocial hazards — just like physical, chemical and biological hazards — must be identified, addressed and effectively managed to maintain safe and healthy workplaces.

Some common psychosocial hazards at work include: exposure to traumatic events or material; inadequate reward and recognition; job demands; lack of role clarity; low job control; poor physical environment, organisational change management, organisational justice or support; remote or isolated work; bullying and harassment; and workplace conflict, violence and aggression.

Get involved

To help you promote World Day on 28 April 2026, Safe Work Australia (SWA) has the following downloadable co-brandable resources:

• Poster
• Desktop wallpaper
• Video call background
• Social media tiles
• Animated GIF
   

SWA also encourages you to post awareness-raising content on social media along with its social tiles and the hashtags #WorldWHSDay2026 #SafeDay2026.

SWA’s resources on psychosocial hazards in the workplace provide employers with examples of hazards, how to identify them and helpful tools to mitigate their risks to ensure a healthy workplace, and are available here.

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