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Current organisations accredited as a Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace

The Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace accreditation supports thousands of employees, across hundreds of sites to implement supportive, accepting and respectful workplace cultures for breastfeeding employees.

By becoming an accredited organisation, you will be joining a vast number of organisations and businesses across Australia leading the way in gender equality and supporting mums.

You would be joining these organisations as a leading family-friendly workplace:

Logos from BFW accredited organisations

Below are organisations with BFW accreditation: 

Government - Local

The following government organisations and departments are currently accredited Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces. 

  • Banyule City Council - Best Practice
  • City of Ballarat
  • City of Greater Dandenong - Best Practice
  • City of Stonnington
  • City of Swan
  • City of Tea Tree Gully
  • City of Victor Harbor
  • Maribyrnong City Council
  • Melton City Council
  • Mildura Rural City Council
  • Town of Victoria Park
Government - State

The following government organisations and departments are currently accredited Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces.

Government - Federal

The following government organisations and departments are currently accredited Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces.

Health

The following organisations, departments and services in the health industry are currently accredited Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces.

  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Best Practice
  • Australian Sports Commission - Best Practice
  • Canberra Health Services
  • Flinders Medical Centre (SA)
  • IIIawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District
  • Joondalup Health Campus
  • Karitane - Best Practice
  • Mallee Track Health & Community Service - Best Practice
  • mecwacare
  • Mercy Health
  • North Western Health PHN
  • NSW Health Agencies as below:
    •      Agency for Clinical Innovation
    •      Bureau of Health Information
    •      Cancer Institute
    •      Clinical Excellence Commission
    •      eHealth NSW
    •      Health Infrastructure
    •      HealthShare NSW
    •      Health Education & Training Institute
    •      Ministry of Health
    •      NSW Health Pathology
  • Peninsula Health
  • Public Health Service (Tasmania) - Best Practice
  • South East Regional Hospital (Bega, NSW)
  • Sunshine Hospital 
  • Tresillian 
  • NT Health - hospitals as below:
    •      Royal Darwin Hospital
    •      Palmerston Hospital
    •      Gove District Hospital
    •      Katherine Hospital
  • The Pharmacy Guild of Australia
  • The Royal Women's Hospital 
Financial

The following finance and investment organisations are currently accredited Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces.

Education

The following education organisations and departments are currently accredited Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces.

Energy, mining and construction

The following organisations in the energy and mining industries are currently accredited Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces.

Legal, consulting and corporate services

The following organisations are currently accredited Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces.

Legal

 

Consulting/Corporate Services

Community

The following community service and not-for-profit organisations are currently accredited Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces.

Other

The following organisations are currently accredited Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces.

Tourism & Information

Retail

  • eBay Australia 
  • IKEA Australia (Perth & Adelaide)
  • Carsales.com Ltd - Best Practice
  • Mercedes Benz Australia Pacific Pty Ltd - Best Practice 
  • Vicinity Centres

Emergency Services & Defence Forces

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Royal Australian Air Force

By gaining accreditation as a Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace we can meet the health, family and cultural needs of our women, which in turn provides the Air Force with the strategic and capability benefits of optimised recruitment and retention, reduced absenteeism, greater effectiveness and productivity, whilst demonstrating our commitment to workplace diversity.

 

- WGCDR Kelley Stewart
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JLL Commercial Real Estate

JLL are proud to have received the Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace Accreditation from the ABA. This accreditation recognizes the importance and benefit of having spaces and policies to support our people to breastfeed or express during work hours. As a Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace, we are proud of the role we are playing to support gender equality. We are a people focused business and continue to strive to support our employees through all stages of life by creating and delivering inclusive policies and promoting our environment where everyone feels included and empowered to excel.