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Research

Information about the research we have done in work, health and safety.

The Centre for WHS has closed, and so has its website. Documents from the Centre for WHS website have been moved to the SafeWork NSW website.

Find an alphabetised list of all research available from SafeWork NSW below. If you can't find what you need or have any questions, contact SafeWork NSW at researchandinsights@safework.nsw.gov.au.

  • A-G
  • H-R
  • S-Z

A-G

Resources List

  • A best practice guide for flexible and work-from-home arrangements

    Download
  • Ageing in nursing and construction

    Download
  • AI WHS scorecard

    Download
  • Australian WHS survey - Autumn 2023

    Download
  • Australian WHS survey - Autumn 2024

    Download
  • Australian WHS survey - Spring 2023

    Download
  • BIM Project Phase 1 report

    Download
  • BIM Project Phase 2 report

    Download
  • BIM Project Phase 3 report

    Download
  • Building information modelling for WHS management best practice matrix

    Download
  • Cobot safety hazard identification and risk assessment

    Download
  • Crane safety incident causation model

    Download
  • Crane safety in construction summary report

    Download
  • Crane safety in construction technical report

    Download
  • Cross-sectional study: Link between workplace stressors and physical injury

    Download

Resources List

  • Development of a BPSS framework for preventing stress in first responders

    Download
  • Easy to do WHS toolkit

    Download
  • Electrical perceptions in agriculture

    Download
  • Electrical risk technical report

    Download
  • Emerging work health and safety impacts on farmers horizon scan

    Download
  • Emerging work health and safety impacts on farmers literature review

    Download
  • Emerging work health and safety impacts on farmers online survey report

    Download
  • Ethical use of artificial intelligence in the workplace report

    Download
  • Exploring the culture for safety in manufacturing

    Download
  • Facilitators, motivators and barriers to managing psychosocial risks

    Download
  • Farmer mental health final report

    Download
  • Flexible work and psychosocial safety: Phase 1 report

    Download
  • Flexible work and psychosocial safety: Phase 2 report

    Download
  • Flexible work and psychosocial safety: Phase 3 report

    Download
  • Flexible work and psychosocial safety summary report

    Download

Resources List

  • Food delivery platforms summary report

    Download
  • Food delivery workers summary report

    Download
  • Guide for regulators: non-monetary orders in WHS

    Download
  • Guidelines for safe collaborative robot design and implementation - introduction

    Download
  • Guidelines for safe collaborative robot design and implementation - flyer

    Download
  • Guidelines for safe collaborative robot design and implementation

    Guide for safe human-cobot interaction.

    Download
  • Guidelines for safe collaborative robot design and implementation

    Guide for designing a safe cobot workplace.

    Download
  • Guidelines for safe collaborative robot design and implementation

    Guide to develop a workplace safety checklist.

    Download
  • Guidelines for safe collaborative robot design and implementation

    Cobot work health and safety risk assessment.

    Download
  • Guide to completing project information requirement template

    Download
  • Guide to developing information requirements

    Download
  • Guidelines to procurement tendering and supply chain monitoring

    Download
 

H-R

Resources List

  • Harms affecting Aboriginal workers final report

    Download
  • Health and safety management using BIM: Phase 1 Report

    Download
  • Health and safety management using BIM: Phase 2 Report

    Download
  • Health and safety management using BIM: Phase 3 Report

    Download
  • Healthy older worker case studies

    Download
  • Healthy older worker toolkit

    Download
  • Healthy older worker toolkit - how-to-use guide

    Download
  • How-to guide - food delivery safety messaging

    Download
  • How service providers can improve farmer work health and safety

    Download
  • Mentally healthy workplaces: A systematic review of interventions

    Download
  • Musculoskeletal disorders from patient handling

    Download

Resources List

  • Optimisation of WHS in small and micro-business in NSW rapid evidence assessment

    Download
  • Preventing harms in first responder communities industry summary

    Download
  • Principles to support safe design of collaborative robotic systems

    Download
  • Psychosocial hazard work re-design tool

    Download
  • Responsive sentencing summary report

    Download
  • Road safety messaging trial summary report

    Download
  • Road safety messaging trial with food delivery workers report

    Download
 

S-Z

Resources List

  • Safety climate flyer agriculture

    Download
  • Safety climate flyer disability support

    Download
  • Safety climate flyer meat processing

    Download
  • Safety climate flyer residential construction

    Download
  • Safety climate flyer security services

    Download
  • Safety climate flyer transportation

    Download
  • Safety climate flyer wood and metals manufacturing

    Download
  • Small business easy to do WHS technical report

    Download
  • Strengthening the priority of WHS for business leaders

    Phase 1 summary report.

    Download
  • Strengthening the priority of WHS for business leaders

    Phase 1 report.

    Download
  • Strengthening the priority of WHS for business leaders

    Phase 2 summary report.

    Download
  • Strengthening the priority of WHS for business leaders

    Phase 2 report.

    Download

Resources List

  • Techniques for investigating accidents

    Download
  • The link between workplace stressors and physical injury

    A systematic review and qualitative study.

    Download
  • The link between workplace stressors and physical injury

    Summary report.

    Download
  • The link between workplace stressors and physical injury

    A cross-sectional study.

    Download
  • Trusting artificial intelligence at work research summary

    Download
  • Understanding effective enforcement tools

    Download
  • Understanding the changing world of work horizon scan

    Download
  • Welding fume harms

    Download
  • WHS Radar - Autumn 2024

    Download
  • WHS Radar - Spring 2023

    Download
  • WHS Radar - Autumn 2023

    Download
  • Work health and safety of food delivery workers in the gig economy report

    Download
  • Work health and safety perceptions of food delivery platforms in the gig economy

    Download
  • Work health and safety risks and harms of cobots

    Download
  • Young male construction workers' electrical risk perceptions

    Download
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