October is National Safe Work Month — a time to make your commitment to improving safety and health in your workplace.
While the health, safety and wellness of staff and students should always be front of mind in “how we do what we do” at UQ, October is a great time to collectively focus on the health, safety and wellness of our staff and students, and ourselves.
Mental Health Week is also celebrated annually in October, promoting the importance of mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
This year our theme for Safe Work Month is 'Safety is everyone's business.' This theme encapsulates a safe and healthy working environment as a fundamental principle and right and emphasises the need for individual, organisational and wider community commitment to safety. A safe and healthy workplace benefits everyone.
There are a number of events and activities during October at UQ and across Queensland to mark Safe Work Month. The calender of events is currently under development and will be released in due course.