SafeWork NSW is launching a comprehensive safety campaign with a clear message to workers, employers, businesses, and contractors — “It’s the safe way or no way.”
This campaign aims to create safer workplaces by emphasising the importance of reducing workplace risks and promoting safer work practices.
Targeting workers aged 18-54 in construction, agriculture, trade, and food delivery industries, the campaign highlights several high-risk activities.
Key focus areas include ensuring safety controls are in place for working at heights, proper use of guards, and wearing appropriate and well-fitted personal protective equipment (PPE).
Notably, falls from heights remain the leading cause of deaths and serious injuries across the state.
Head of SafeWork NSW, Trent Curtin, said: “This campaign reinforces the importance of raising awareness of health and safety risks in workplaces. It supports the work of our dedicated Inspectors by emphasising the messages they take to workplaces every day — delivering them to a far wider audience.”
“SafeWork NSW is targeting this campaign based on a range of criteria including evidence from workers’ compensation injury claims and incident data, research on enduring and emerging high-risk harms, and the day-to-day experience of our Inspectors.”
In the 2022-23 financial year, SafeWork NSW’s compliance activities included responding to 8,940 workplace incidents, conducting 53,157 intervention and education activities, issuing 15,168 notices, and filing 175 charges across 61 court matters.
For more information on the campaign and to access resources, please visit SafeWork NSW.
