{"id":3189,"date":"2019-10-11T05:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iria.com.au\/be-a-safety-champion\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:53:03","slug":"be-a-safety-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devsites.au\/iria\/be-a-safety-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a safety champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><strong>Safe Work Australia urges everyone to be a safety champion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"entry-title\">Safe Work Australia reminds all workers and businesses to commit to building safe and healthy workplaces this National Safe Work Month. With the theme \u2018Be a Safety Champion,\u2019 everyone is encouraged to promote best practice work health and safety initiatives at their workplace.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u201cDuring National Safe Work Month, we want to recognise that workers, employees, managers, supervisors, teams and organisations can all be safety champions,\u201d said Safe Work Australia CEO, Michelle Baxter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t 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,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>There are several resources on Safe Work Australia\u2019s website to help promote the campaign. These include customizable posters, a digital brand kit, flyers, web graphics and infographics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis October, everyone can be champions for work health and safety \u2013 we can all build a more positive work health and safety culture,\u201d said Ms. Baxter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUse the hashtag #safetychampion to give a shout out to the champions in your workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Author:\u00a0 \u00a0Haydee<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Source:\u00a0 \u00a0Safety Culture<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"at-below-post addthis_tool\" data-url=\"http:\/\/content.safetyculture.com.au\/news\/index.php\/10\/safe-work-australia-urges-everyone-safety-champion\/\" data-title=\"Safe Work Australia urges everyone to be a safety champion - OHS News\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safe Work Australia reminds all workers and businesses to commit to building safe and healthy workplaces this National Safe Work Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,43,15],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety-news","tag-safetychampion","tag-national-safe-work-month","tag-safe-work-australia","grve-entry-item","grve-blog-item"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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