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Be A Safety Champion

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Safe Work Australia urges everyone to be a safety champion

Safe Work Australia reminds all workers and businesses to commit to building safe and healthy workplaces this National Safe Work Month.

With the theme ‘Be a Safety Champion,’ everyone is encouraged to promote best practice work health and safety initiatives at their workplace.

“During National Safe Work Month, we want to recognise that workers, employees, managers, supervisors, teams and organisations can all be safety champions,” said Safe Work Australia CEO, Michelle Baxter.

“It doesn’t matter what industry you work in, what role you do, whether you act as an individual or work as a team. We can all actively promote work health and safety,” she said.

There are several resources on Safe Work Australia’s website to help promote the campaign. These include customizable posters, a digital brand kit, flyers, web graphics and infographics.

“This October, everyone can be champions for work health and safety – we can all build a more positive work health and safety culture,” said Ms. Baxter.

“Use the hashtag #safetychampion to give a shout out to the champions in your workplace.”

 

Author:   Haydee

Source:   Safety Culture

 

 

97 Deaths so far this year

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97 Australian workers killed in 2018

 Latest figures from Safe Work Australia show 97 Australian workers have been killed at work in 2018.

Safe Work Australia said the latest figures are based on initial media reports and are a preliminary estimate of the number of people killed while working.

Transport, postal & warehousing industry has so far recorded 29 fatalities, Agriculture, forestry & fishing 28 fatalities, and Construction 19 fatalities.

The figures show the manufacturing industry has seen 8 fatalities, while the mining industry has so far recorded 5 fatalities.

Electricity, gas, water & waste services and Wholesale trade have 2 fatalities each.

Administrative & support services, Arts & recreation services, Public administration & safety and Rental, hiring & real estate services have each one fatality.

Author:   Stephen

Source:   www.safetyculture.com.au

Eight Australian workers killed at work in 2018 so far

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Safe Work Australia has released the latest work-related fatality figures.

The figures show as at 18 January 2018, there have been 8 Australian workers killed at work this year.

Six of the fatalities occurred in the transport, postal & warehousing workplaces, while agriculture, forestry & fishing and wholesale trade have each one fatality.

In 2017, Safe Work Australia’s preliminary data shows 174 Australian workers were killed at work, compared with 182 workers in 2016.

The safety watchdog says these figures are based on initial media reports and are a preliminary estimate of the number of people killed while working.

 

Author:  Stephen

Source:  www.safetyculture.com.au

175 Australian workers killed in 2017

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Latest figures from Safe Work Australia show there were a total of 175 fatal work injuries in Australia in 2017. The Transport, postal & warehousing industry recorded the highest number of work-related deaths, with 66 fatalities. In 2016, the industry recorded a total of 57 fatalities.

Forty seven Agriculture, forestry & fishing workers died on the job in 2017. The industry had 43 fatalities in 2016.  According to the new figures, the construction industry saw 30 fatalities while eight Arts & recreation services workers died on the job.

The figures show 6 manufacturing workers were killed at work, while the Public administration & safety industry lost 5 workers.

Other industries to have recorded fatalities include Mining and Electricity, gas, water & waste services each 3 fatalities. Others include Accommodation & food services 2 fatalities, Retail trade, Wholesale trade, Health care & social assistance, Financial & insurance services and Rental, hiring & real estate service- all of which recorded one fatality each.

No deaths were reported in education & training, professional, scientific & technical services, information media & telecommunications, administrative & support services and other services.

Safe Work Australia figures show 182 Australian workers died on the job in 2016.

Safe Work Australia says the figures are a preliminary estimate of the number of work-related fatalities and  once the appropriate authority has investigated the death, more accurate information becomes available from which the safety watchdog updates details of the incident.

 

Author:   Stephen

Source:   www.safetyculture.com.au