This snapshot of workforce health in Australia uses existing data to construct an evidence-base on modern worker wellbeing. It finds workplaces in which pain, psychological distress, mental health disorders and lost working time are common, concluding that better monitoring is needed to improve understanding of the challenges in this area.

Transport workers are up to five times more likely to be injured at work than any other Australian worker, according to this research. Train drivers, in particular, are thirty times more likely to develop a mental health condition than any other worker.