Improving WHS for workers using crowd platforms

Response to the Safe Work Australia Consultation paper – April 2026

The ACTU is committed to advancing work health and safety for all Australian workers through a rights-based, participatory approach. The ACTU has two member positions for SafeWork Australia, representing the interests of workers and ensuring that the voices and experiences of working people are central to national WHS policy and regulatory development.

The ACTU’s strategy is focused on supporting unions to actively organise workers around healthy and safe work. This includes winning and embedding new health and safety rights at work and building the capacity of unions to use both new and existing rights to organise. By empowering unions and their members to take collective action, the ACTU seeks to ensure that work health and safety is not just a matter of compliance, but a fundamental right that is actively realised in every workplace.

The ACTU acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters, and community. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. The ACTU’s office in Melbourne is located on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We honour their custodianship and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

In making this submission, the ACTU acknowledges and supports the submissions made by our affiliates, including the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and the Australian Services Union.

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