National Safe Work Month
October 2024 is National Safe Work Month for Australia #SafetyIsOurBusiness.
National Safe Work Month is held nationally in October each year to raise community and industry awareness about committing to building safe and healthy workplaces for all Australians.
Annually the campaign strives to encourage individuals to prioritise work health and safety and to take preventative action to reduce a number of work-related injuries, illnesses and fatalities.
The 2024 National Safe Work Month theme is ‘Safety Is Our Business’.
This theme encapsulates a safe and healthy working environment as a fundamental principle and right across all industries and occupations, while reinforcing the business benefit that comes from committing to safer workplaces. The theme emphasises the positive outcomes of good workplace health and safety risk management, highlighting individual, organisational and wider community benefit.
Let’s keep workers safe and healthy by ensuring workplace health and safety is core to how we do business in Australia.
Statistics show that in 2023, there were 200 workers in Australia that were fatally injured at work and between 2022 and 2023 there were 139,000 seriously injured workers sustaining workplace injuries.
To find out more about what you can do in the workplace to build a safety workplace – check out: National Safe Work Month 2024 | Safe Work Australia