Input sought on improving occupational health and safety measures for workers operating on crowd platforms

Safe Work Australia is looking for responses concerning the regulation of crowd platform arrangements as outlined in the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act, with the goal of ensuring that crowd platform workers receive equivalent WHS protections to those provided to other workers.

“Crowd platforms are a type of digital labour platform that connect workers and clients,” says Safe Work Australia.

“Clients can select workers from a pool of applicants who submit bids through the platform, with terms and negotiation often undertaken directly between the client and worker.”

Safe Work Australia states that there is uncertainty regarding who holds responsibility for work health and safety in crowd platform work

The safety regulator indicates that this has raised concerns that certain workers operating crowd platforms might not be sufficiently safeguarded against health and safety hazards.

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