Health, safety and wellness events

Webinar

Embracing Positive Wellbeing: Fundamentals of Positive Psychology
Thursday 4 December 2025, 1:00PM AEST
Hosted by: Altius Group
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Skin Checks

Book in for a 15 minute body skin check, and have a specialist examine your skin in areas of concern. Limited appointments available.

When & Where: 
1 and 3 December - Herston
2 December - Dutton Park (PACE)
1 December - Long Pocket
2-4 and 9-10 December - St Lucia

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Find Your Rhythm: The connection between sleep, exercise and wellbeing 
Hosted by: Fitness Passport
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Mat Pilates as functional fitness
Hosted by: Fitness Passport
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Fuel your goals with optimal nutrition and Fitness Passport
Hosted by: Fitness Passport
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The Resilience Edge: Tactics for Stress and Burnout Prevention Before it Gets the Best of You
Hosted by: Altius Group
Watch recording>> available until 24 October (you will need to request permission using your UQ email address)

Mental Fitness & Stress Reduction
Hosted by: Fitness Passport
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R U OK? Mental health education and awareness
Hosted by: Altius Group
Watch recording>> available until 12 December  (you will need to request permission using your UQ email address)

Unleash Your Inner Productivity Ninja: Mastering Time Management and Efficiency
Hosted by: Altius Group
Watch recording>> available until 23 January 2026  (you will need to request permission using your UQ email address)

Back Care
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Workspace Ergonomics - Work From Home edition
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Understanding menopause
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Mental health in uncertain times
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Mindfulness Series
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Mindful Listening - recording coming soon

State of Indoor Air in Australia
31 October 2025 
Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska, Queensland University of Technology, will examine the state of indoor air quality in Australian buildings, the pollutants of concern, and the challenges posed by climate change. The session will explore how building design, technology, and regulation can balance clean air, thermal comfort, and energy efficiency for healthier workplaces.
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Behind the Scenes with SafeZone: Real-Time Assistance and Campus Safety
28 October 2025 
This session provides an insider’s look at how the SafeZone Command platform operates, showcasing real-time incident management, communication tools, and coordination processes that keep campuses safe. Garry Tyler and Yin Tint, UQ Campus Security, will provide insight into the workflows, decision-making, and technology that underpin effective safety operations.
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UQ Biosafety Update
24 October 2025  
This session will provide key updates on biosafety and biosecurity at UQ, including upcoming changes to OGTR PC2 and DAFF BC2 guidelines, updates to biosafety forms and checklists, and insights from recent facility inspections.
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Enhancing Psychosocial Safety Consultation
22 October 2025 
Mark Oostergo, Australian Psychological Society, will unpack how good work positively impacts people, delve into the complex interaction of psychosocial hazards using organisational change as a case study, and highlight what effective controls really look like. Come along to this session to learn what good consultation looks like, and how meaningful consultation can help us better understand and manage psychosocial risks.
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Critical Risks
16 October 2025 
Managing critical risks is central to workplace safety. With extensive experience across sectors including retail, logistics, and higher education, Belinda Kelly will discuss the importance of governance, systems, and leadership in controlling high-consequence risks. This session will provide practical insights into strengthening organisational safety systems and embedding effective risk management.
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Employee Wellbeing Starts with Work Design: Minimising Psychosocial Risks Through SMART Work Design Principles
14 October 2025 
Dr Caroline Knight will introduce the SMART Work Design Model—Stimulating, Mastery-oriented, Autonomous, Relational, with Tolerable demands—and demonstrate how these principles can minimise psychosocial risks. This session offers practical strategies for staff and leaders to enhance wellbeing through better work design.
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Invisible Risks, Collective Solutions: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Occupational Health
1 October 2025 
Dr Nikky LaBranche, UQ’s Sustainable Minerals Institute, will share how cross-disciplinary approaches are helping us better detect hazards, develop safer practices, and shift how we think about worker health. This session explores how collaborative, cross-disciplinary research is helping us detect unseen hazards, inform safer practices, and ultimately shift the way we think about worker health and prevention.
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