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Fostering Worker Wellbeing: Wesfarmers Health's Effective Community Engagement
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Throughout
the year, Wesfarmers Health collaborated with Australian
Red Cross, aiming to boost
workers’ knowledge of workplace protections through the promotion of the Work Right Hub (Hub).
Wesfarmers
Health promoted the Hub with a select group of domestic suppliers and factories
with the goal of informing and empowering workers. It worked closely with the
Australian Red Cross to tailor the messaging on promotional material for the
Hub to suit the Australian manufacturing context.
Australian
Red Cross has identified the Hub as Australia's first digital platform designed
to prevent and address criminal labour exploitation. The Hub platform,
developed in consultation with individuals and industry, achieves this by
empowering and educating migrant communities, workers, and front-line
responders so that they are able to identify and address modern slavery
indicators and access avenues of support.
These groups have also been involved in training and information
sessions in relation to the Hub.
A
select group of Wesfarmers Health's Own Brand supply chain workers in Australia
can now anonymously access the Hub's multilingual decision tree tool by
scanning a QR code. This tool enables them to discover available services, view
videos of others who have received support, and easily access information on
workplace rights and protections.
Looking
ahead to the next reporting period, Wesfarmers Health is committed to further
developing the Hub in collaboration with Australian Red Cross. The company aims
to explore more innovative ways to engage with key community organisations and
provide support not only to workers within its supply chain but also to the
broader community they reside in.
This
ongoing initiative reflects Wesfarmers Health's dedication to engaging the
community for the betterment of worker welfare.