A special focus on work health and safety law and policy and work for digital labor platforms

This inaugural issue of the English version of the Journal of Work Health and Safety Regulation focuses on one of the most pressing challenges in work health and safety (WHS) regulatory policy: how to regulate to ensure the health and safety of workers undertaking work allocated through digital platforms across a range of industrial settings. In addressing this challenge, this special issue recognizes that platform mediated gig work (hereafter “platform work”) is one type of “gig work” within the broader range of precarious work, which is strongly linked with exploitative practices and poor health and safety outcomes (as elaborated later in this Editors’ Introduction).