AUSIT NSW Presents: Work Health & Safety for Interpreters (Webinar)

Registrations close midnight, 11:59pm, 19 October 2025

Understanding Psychosocial Risks and Workplace Protections

This professional development session will explore the intersection of Work Health & Safety (WHS) and interpreters’ workplace rights, with a special focus on psychosocial harm. Recent reports from Western Australia have highlighted the toll interpreters face when working with highly vulnerable clients — from sexual assault victims to voluntary assisted dying patients — without adequate protections, briefings, or debriefings. Many interpreters have spoken out about the psychological strain, the risk of burnout, and even a “mass exodus” from the industry.

Drawing on her leadership of Professionals Australia’s WHS campaign in WA, Tamarah Rowlands will unpack how workplace protections can and should apply to interpreters, and why these issues are urgent for the profession today.

The session will conclude with space for Q&A and discussion, giving participants the opportunity to reflect on the challenges interpreters face across diverse work environments.

Our Presenter - Tamarah Rowlands

Tamarah Rowlands is the WA Director at Professionals Australia, where she represents the interests of highly skilled professionals across STEM, including interpreters. With a background in union leadership and industrial relations, she specialises in building collective power in workplaces, negotiating better conditions, and advancing respect, recognition, and rights for members. Passionate and committed to achieving real outcomes through member-led organising and advocacy, Tamarah works to ensure professionals have a strong voice from the bargaining table to boardrooms and national policy debates.      

Joining the Webinar

The Zoom links for the webinar will be sent out one day prior to the event. Please ensure you have downloaded the latest version of Zoom in preparation.

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Certificates and recordings
This is a live event and will be recorded. Webinar recordings and Certificates for PD purposes may take approximately two (2) weeks to be released following the event.

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