Safe Work Australia Week
15 October, 2007
The Australian Safety and Compensation Council has made workplace
safety a national priority. Safe Work Australia Week is a national week held from 21 to 27 October and aims to encourage all working Australians to get involved in, and concentrate on, safety in their workplace to reduce death, injury and disease.
"Australia currently ranks in the top five countries for reducing workrelated
deaths with a 13% decrease in accepted compensation claims and a 36% decrease in compensated fatalities since 1996," said Mr Bill Scales.
"While these figures are encouraging, even one injury or fatality in the
workplace is still one too many.
"Incorporating safety into our everyday work practices and making it a
daily consideration not only improves occupational health and safety
(OHS) performance, but it has a very significant effect on productivity.
Mr Scales said that an online ordering system for free promotional products has been also been launched to assist employers to promote Safe Work Australia Week.
The ASCC has made promotional products and resource kits available online to support employers across Australia.
"We have already received orders from over 500 organisations nationwide
for Safe Work Australia Week promotional products.
"I encourage employers and employees to get involved and host activities
in support of Safe Work Australia Week at their workplace, because as we
all know safety is everybody's business," Mr Scales said.
Free promotional products, employer resource kits and activity ideas for
Safe Work Australia Week 2007 are available from the ASCC website at
www.ascc.gov.au.