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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Why We Take Young Worker Safety Seriously

Young people incur 1 in 5 work-related injuries in Australia. This is largely due to their inexperience and general unfamiliarity with workplace health and safety procedures.

Data shows that on average, 16 young trade workers are killed annually. Oftentimes these fatalities occur because young workers aren’t aware of their rights in the workplace and those who are new to work are too afraid to speak out or ask questions.

At Youthsafe, our young worker safety services are designed to proactively address these situations with both young workers and supervisors to help transform their attitudes and behaviours with the ultimate goal of improving workplace health and safety cultures.

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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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Supervising Young Workers’ Online Induction Session

This free online session is designed to provide supervisors with key practical strategies to enhance their influence with young workers with the aim of improving workplace safety.

The session offers insights into the reasons for the high rate of injuries involving young workers and the behaviours and attitudes that can help to reduce rates of injury and near misses.

It offers a toolkit of practical mentoring strategies to improve influence with young workers and suggests effective ways to manage young worker safety.

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Work, Safer Road Use And You

A face-to-face presentation that is customised for workplaces that use vehicles frequently, this program emphasises getting home safely as the most important outcome of any day.

This is a bespoke program where Youthsafe collaborates with the participating company to identify the road risks that are specific to them and how their workers can mitigate those risks.

The session is open to any business that uses vehicles and is not limited to businesses in the transport industry. It applies to all workers, regardless of their age.

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Award-Winning Youthsafe
Projects And Resources

In Working Order

An interactive session to promote safer school-to-work transitions - in partnership with the Australian Retailers Association (ARA)

Talking Safety

An online resource for the supervisors of young workers in retail - in partnership
with the ARA

YPack

A hard copy and online resource for GTOs to better understand and manage the risk profile of young apprentices and trainees - in partnership with the Apprentice Employment Network of NSW and ACT

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.