Prioritise Young
Worker Safety
With Youthsafe

Our unwavering dedication to young worker safety means that Youthsafe’s services are not just aimed at young people but also those who are responsible for creating a safe workplace for youth. Youthsafe’s holistic approach to safety, development, and well-being includes a range of useful resources and programs aimed at making youth safety a priority and enhancing a safety culture generally.

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Create Workplaces where Safety is Owned, Not Simply Imposed

Challenging Mindsets. Transforming attitudes. Strengthening cultures.

While workplace safety systems are built around compliance—Youthsafe works where regulation can’t reach: the mindset, attitudes and everyday decisions that shape day-to-day worker behaviour.

Youthsafe specialises in helping businesses build safer, stronger work cultures—especially when it comes to young and novice workers, who are disproportionately represented in serious injuries and near-misses.

Our point of difference is behavioural change: equipping supervisors, team leaders, mentors with the skills to contribute to safety culture at the human level.

Youthsafe is a trusted outside voice: supporting management’s safety goals while helping workers recognise their personal agency in improved outcomes.

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Youthsafe Programs For Businesses And Managers

Ensuring young people know how to take responsibility for their safety at work is important and employers have a duty to ensure young workers are given the support needed to foster this responsibility.

This is a duty that can be very challenging and one that requires employers to consider the special vulnerabilities of young workers.

Youthsafe has developed several programs and resources to assist workplaces effectively exercise their duty to all young workers.

Supervisors And Young Workers’ Workshops

We offer customisable face-to-face workshops for supervisors and young workers to reduce the risk of workplace injuries.

Our supervisor workshops focus on company-specific workplace safety issues and use strength-based mentoring techniques to improve the influence of supervisors with young workers.

The young worker workshops aim to develop workers’ awareness of workplace safety and provide strategies and tips to actively contribute to improving safety for themselves and their fellow workers.

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What Our Community Says About Us

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Research from NSW indicates that 15- to 25-year-olds have a 75 per cent greater chance of being injured at work

SAFEWORK NSW 2017

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Research from NSW indicates that 15- to 25-year-olds have a 75 per cent greater chance of being injured at work

SAFEWORK NSW 2017

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Research from NSW indicates that 15- to 25-year-olds have a 75 per cent greater chance of being injured at work

SAFEWORK NSW 2017

Our Partners

Invest in the safety of young workers by leveraging the services of Youthsafe—a trusted partner that’s worked with governments, businesses, and community organisations to prevent young Australians from suffering avoidable injuries through highly responsive programs.

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FAQs

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How can Youthsafe benefit my organisation?

Led by a Board comprising of volunteers with extensive professional experience in workplace and road safety, injury prevention and community networks, Youthsafe’s team has the experience and proven capability to ensure that young workers are safe and workplaces are aware of how to create safe environments.

With all this expertise under one roof, Youthsafe can offer organisations the guidance and support they need.

What key initiatives has Youthsafe contributed to?

Yes. Supervisors are an integral part of creating a young person at work risk assessment. They need to understand that young workers require more focused attention since they’re beginning to integrate into the workforce and may need to build up maturity.

Having supervisors involved in the risk assessment stage helps create a better assessment since they are likely to have more insights into the types of risks young workers could face.

What is your approach to addressing the safety of young workers?

What are the industries that are considered hotspots for youth worker injuries in Australia?

Hotspots for young workers include construction, transport, warehousing, hospitality, agriculture, forestry and fishing.