Healthy workplaces toolkit
The Healthy workplaces toolkit guides Local Drug Action Teams helping local workplaces prevent and minimise alcohol and other drug harm.
Healthy workplaces and alcohol and other drug prevention
Many people spend a large part of their lives at work, so workplaces can make a real difference to health.
What is a healthy workplace?
In this toolkit, a healthy workplace is one that uses practical strategies to prevent and minimise alcohol and other drug harm. Alcohol, other drugs and prescription medicines, whether used during or outside work hours, can affect health, safety and productivity at work. Because workplaces shape the everyday habits of the people in them, they’re an important setting for prevention.
How Local Drug Action Teams use it
Local Drug Action Teams use this toolkit to work with local employers. They share advice on creating clear, fair alcohol and other drug policies, help workplaces provide education and support for staff, and connect workers with trusted information, support services and programs. Some focus on particular industries, such as construction, fly-in fly-out work or hospitality, or on groups such as young workers. This toolkit works well alongside the Alcohol, other drugs and young adults toolkit.
Where it fits in the LDAT program
Local Drug Action Teams use this toolkit as part of their Community Action Plan (CAP).
How Local Drug Action Teams are responding
- Young people job-ready in Hobsons Bay: the Hobsons Bay LDAT combined job-readiness training with alcohol and other drug education for young people in Melbourne’s south-west.
What’s in the full toolkit
The full toolkit gives Local Drug Action Teams practical guidance, including:
- key points for Local Drug Action Teams
- drawing on existing programs
- guiding principles
- considerations for planning and delivery
- key activity and measuring success
- key steps.
If you’re part of a Local Drug Action Team, you can use the full toolkit on the LDAT platform.
Partner with a Local Drug Action Team
Local Drug Action Teams work with local organisations, such as schools, councils, sporting clubs and health services, to prevent alcohol and other drug harm in their communities. See where LDATs are on our map, and if your organisation would like to partner with one, contact us.
Last reviewed: 4 November 2026