Impacts of Climate Change on Work Health and Safety in Australia: A Scoping Literature Review.

This scoping review explores the extant literature on climate change impacts on Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) in Australia. It maps the coverage of climate hazards, occupations at risk, and health and socio-economic impacts with the aim of identifying climate change impacts on WHS in Australia and associated knowledge gaps. We used a scoping review approach to identify and investigate 41 scholarly works at the nexus between climate change and WHS in Australia.

Mental health and well-being impacts of COVID-19 on rural paramedics, police, community nurses and child protection workers.

Objective: To investigate the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and well-being of rural paramedics, police, community nursing and child protection staff.

Method: An online survey was distributed to investigate the sources of stress and support across individual, task and organisational domains.

Setting And Participants: The survey was completed by 1542 paramedics, police, community nurses and child protection workers from all states and territories of Australia.