by Admin | Jun 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
This month the Victorian Council of Social Services released a new report highlighting how people experiencing disadvantage are particularly at risk with heat stress. Extreme heat kills more Australians than any other form of natural disaster, and for some it makes...
by Admin | May 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Workers in aged care face a raft of challenges in the provision of quality care, including understaffing, time pressures, and high turnover of staff. As COVID-19 made clear, care workers also perform essential work that places them at the frontline of public health...
by Admin | Apr 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
The outbreak of COVID-19 in Australia resulted in rapid, sweeping changes to daily life and work. Some of these changes were temporary while others, such as the use of face masks in certain settings and social distancing measures, remain partially in place. Workers in...
by Admin | Nov 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
We have released a new report with the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work, looking at the impacts of heat stress on workers in Australia. Prepared by UTS researchers as part of the Too Hot to Work Project, the report outlines why working in climate...
by Admin | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
A new project, Sweltering Cities, has just launched. With a focus on Western Sydney, the initiative is working with some of the hottest urban communities in Australia. Western Sydney has been described as an urban heat island, and last summer temperatures were close...