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The Healthy Workplaces Service is a free service designed to help you navigate your workplace’s health and wellbeing journey.

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Your workplace health and wellbeing partner: Tailored solutions. Completely free.

The Healthy Workplaces Service can help you develop tailored solutions to complex and distinctive challenges your workplace may encounter. Our commitment goes beyond merely offering a service – we will assist you to succeed with solutions that tackle prevalent issues currently being faced by various industry sectors across South Australia.

Discover the benefits

  • Leadership commitment guidance: Receive support in getting workplace leaders committed to prioritising and championing workplace health.
  • Needs assessment expertise: Uncover the unique health and wellbeing needs of your workplace through comprehensive assessments.
  • Employee engagement strategies: Learn how to effectively engage your staff, fostering a culture of wellness and productivity.
  • Strategic policies and practices: Gain expert insights on developing health and wellbeing policies and programs that align with your workplace goals.
  • Programs and support services: Access a wealth of information and resources tailored to address specific health concerns.

Why choose the Healthy Workplaces Service?

Our team of dedicated Healthy Workplaces Advisors are qualified professionals in health promotion, workplace health and safety, as well as business services. We go beyond generic recommendations, providing action-based strategies to enhance your workplace's overall health, safety, and wellbeing whilst also fostering a sense of community and increasing productivity.

Ready to get started?

  • Our Collaborative Partnership members specialise in different areas such as small business, public sector, or specific industries. Review the details below to see which of our members are best placed to support you.
  • Explore more details in the video below.
  • Review our frequently asked questions.

Access the Healthy Workplaces Service via any of the Collaborative Partnership members below.

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Public sector organisations

The Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment (OCPSE) enables the South Australian public sector to deliver great outcomes for the community. OCPSE leads transformation through strategic initiatives in workforce capability, leadership, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing. Programs include the Safety, Wellbeing and Injury Management Strategy, Aboriginal employment partnerships, and the South Australian Leadership Academy. OCPSE drives innovation in workforce analytics and cultural reform and inclusive policy development.

Contacts:

  • Helen Galindo, Manager, Healthy and Safe Workplaces, Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment
  • Dr Jo Anne Dumalaon-Canaria, Healthy Workplaces Advisor, Healthy and Safe Workplaces, Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment

Email: ocpsewhsim@sa.gov.au
Phone: 08 8429 4064

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Industry specific support

ReturntoWorkSA’s Healthy Workplace Advisor (external site) (PDF) (external site) (PDF) (external site) (PDF) (external site) (PDF) supports employers from industries at higher risk of work injury to develop and embed sustainable health, safety, and wellbeing practices into their workplace.

Employers in the following industries can reach out for free assistance and advice:

  • Transport
  • Health Care & Social Assistance
  • Hospitality
  • Employers with Apprentices

Email: healthyworkplaces@rtwsa.com
Phone: 0448 743 817

Office for Small and Family Business

Other support services

The Office for Small and Family Business provides support and resources to help businesses start, grow, and succeed. They offer a variety of programs and information, including access to a dedicated Small Business Support Officer in your region. Contact them directly at the number below for assistance or referrals to business advisory services. For more information, visit their website (external site) or use the email given below.

Email: smallbusiness@sa.gov.au
Phone: 08 8429 3801

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All other enquiries

SafeWork SA (external site) (external site) (external site) (external site) is South Australia's workplace health and safety (WHS) regulator. We are committed to ensuring safe workplaces for all South Australians by offering free information, support, and advice to enhance workplace safety for everyone.

We offer WHS advice and education, provide a free safety-focused library service, facilitate licences and registration for workers and plant, investigate workplace incidents, and enforce South Australian WHS laws.

Our advisory service offers free advice to help you understand your responsibilities and keep your workplace safe. Our advisors will come to your workplace and tailor the advice to suit your industry, size, risk and complexity. Learn more on our website (external site) (external site) (external site) (external site) and request a visit via the online form.

Frequently asked questions

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Everyone deserves to work in a place where their health and wellbeing matter. A healthy workplace is a thriving workplace with strong leadership for a culture of care that leads to greater engagement and productivity, fewer work-related injuries and illnesses, and improved health and wellbeing outcomes for its workers.

The Healthy Workplaces Service provides free information and support to businesses in South Australia so that they can create healthy, safe, and thriving workplaces.

The Healthy Workplaces Service provides information and support to help businesses to:

  • design, implement, and monitor an integrated and holistic approach to workplace health and wellbeing
  • address specific health and wellbeing issues within a workplace
  • link into services and evidence based resources to promote health, wellbeing, and safety.

Many corporate providers offer health products, rather than a strategic approach to workplace health and wellbeing. While health products can complement a sustainable healthy workplace plan, the statewide service offers unique support to workplaces including:

  • free information and links to resources from highly skilled advisors
  • mentoring through a quality improvement process, not just a once-off product for employees
  • information based on evidence from trusted sources – we never sell products or provide biased information
  • specialist knowledge and connections across multiple agencies for an integrated approach to care – health, safety, wellbeing.

Our Healthy Workplace Advisors can help you to:

  • tackle healthy lifestyle topics including smoking, nutrition, alcohol, physical activity, overweight/ obesity, and early detection
  • create an integrated approach to address psychosocial risks in the workplace and create a mentally healthy workplace
  • create an integrated approach to manage hazards on musculoskeletal disorders, sleep and fatigue, and heat and sun exposure.

The service cannot provide:

  • specific advice related to safety, human resources, or industrial relations
  • support for individual workers experiencing physical or mental health and wellbeing related issues, whether requested by their employer or themselves
  • specific advice on legal industrial relation matters of employee/employer concerns.

This is a joint service initiative of the Collaborative Partnership for Health and Wellbeing in South Australia.

Depending on the nature of health and wellbeing needs of the workplace, cases will be assigned to corresponding Advisor from Preventative Health SA, ReturnToWorkSA, SafeWork SA, Department of State Development and Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment.

Our Healthy Workplaces Advisors are qualified professionals from across areas of health promotion, workplace health and safety, and business services. All Healthy Workplace Advisors receive induction and professional development training to ensure they meet the requirements of the service.

All South Australian workplaces across all industry sectors, whether they are small or large organisations, can access the service.

Yes, the service is free for all South Australian workplaces.

A Healthy Workplaces Advisor will respond to your enquiry within five working days.

We are dedicated to providing an excellent Healthy Workplaces Service to all workplaces across South Australia. Whether you’re happy with the service you've received, or you think we have room for improvement, or you have a complaint or suggestion we would like to hear from you.

As the Healthy Workplaces Service is a joint initiative of Preventative Health SA, ReturnToWorkSA, SafeWork SA, the Department of State Development, and the Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment, feedback or complaints will be resolved in accordance with each agency’s complaints management policy and procedures.

Please refer to the below list to direct your correspondence:

Unresolved issues or disputes

If you remain unsatisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you can refer your issue to the Ombudsman SA (external site) (external site) (external site) (external site) (external site) (external site), or contact them via:

Email: ombudsman@ombudsman.sa.gov.au

Telephone: (08) 8226 8699