It is well recognised that climate change impacts are distributed unevenly across society and that those groups already experiencing disadvantage – such as lack of access to infrastructure – are most vulnerable. Increasingly what is now also recognised is that those groups who enjoy access to infrastructural systems and services are also at risk because those systems and services are at risk – and if and when they fail, their loss cascades impacts throughout all of those who rely on them. What, though, does the failure of systems and services look like? What is involved? Drawing on research into the impacts of climate change on work, we contend that at the heart of the issue is workers and their capacity to continue performing their role. In particular, workers in “enabling” sectors such as health and community services are essential to the ongoing wellbeing of society, notably the ill and marginalised. It is therefore of deep concern that such workers are themselves especially vulnerable to climate change impacts, in part due to its multiple close connections to the domestic sphere. In this presentation we will draw on empirical research with health and community service workers, together with literature on climate change adaptation, geographies of health and feminist political economy, to argue for a worker-centric approach that better illuminates the generation of climate change impacts, how they cascade through society and the risk of deepening unjust outcomes. By taking such a worker-centric approach, the gamut of paid and unpaid work that reproduces society comes into view and so too, then, does what is at stake as we face climate change disruption.