Funding for initiatives that reduce harm in Victorian workplaces

Overview

Areas of activity that will be considered for funding include:

• Prevention interventions: Implementing innovative and improved risk controls to prevent or minimise occupational illness and disease.
• Risk management: Improving risk management in the workplace by applying known best practice approach.
• Training and education: Developing training materials, train or educate workplaces on the prevention of occupational disease or illness; educating employers, workers and medical practitioners on the protection and promotion of worker health.
• Knowledge and insights: Undertaking research or gathering data to improve knowledge of current or emerging occupational illnesses and diseases.
• Support: Providing services and education to high risk industries or communities with a higher population of people impacted by occupational disease and illness.

Check if you can apply

To be eligible, applicants must:

• be from an organisation registered for goods and services tax (GST) and an Australian business number (ABN)
• align the funding principles
• be undertaking a project that impacts the health safety and wellbeing of Victorian workers
• demonstrate the necessary expertise, resources and capacity to undertake, manage and evaluate the proposed initiative
• be financially capable to deliver the proposed initiative.