From the Minister for Workcover
Thursday, 31 January 2008
WorkSafe Victoria has launched its latest advertising campaign in an effort to
further reduce the number of Victorian workers injured in the workplace.
Launching the campaign today, the Minister for Finance, WorkCover and the
Transport Accident Commission, Tim Holding, said nearly 80 Victorian workers
were still being injured every day and urged Victorians to make 2008 the safest
on record for workplace safety.“We’ve had a great deal of success in recent years
in reducing the number of workplace injuries but history shows that if we let
our guard down this can quickly change,” Mr Holding said.
Mr Holding said that last year there were 28,856 injury and illness claims in
Victoria, the equal owest on record.
There were 22 workplace fatalities in 2007, down from 29 the previous year.
WRONG! MR HOLDING, THERE WAS 131 WORKPLACE FATALITIES
LAST YEAR! GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT AND BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY
FURTHER CHANGES TO THE ACCIDENT COMPENSATION ACT
OTHERWISE, YOUR'E JUST DOING ANOTHER KENNETT CON!
“The introduction of new health and safety laws in 2005 placed greater
emphasis on consultation between managers and workers on health and
safety issues and dealing with hazards and risks, which has made
a real difference to the way that safety is approached.“But laws alone are
not enough.“It requires support from the whole community, which is why
WorkSafe is continually seeking new and innovative ways to spread its message.
“It’s crucial we utilise new ways of getting the safety messages across, from
logos on country football and netball players, to billboards and the electronic
media.“The aim of each strategy is to remind everyone that we all have a
right to return home at the end of the day.”
Mr Holding said the new TV advertisement, ‘School Play’, built on the
award winning ‘Homecomings’ advertisement from 2006, reminding
Victorians that a workplace injury can mean that the whole family misses
out on the ‘little things’, like a father and son kicking the footy together.
The ‘Homecomings’ advertisement was so popular it has since been adopted
by other safety regulators around the country and is now seen in NSW,
Queensland and Western Australia.“This new advertisement builds on this
theme, reminding people that it is not only those who are injured that suffer
when workplace accidents occur, it’s the entire family,” he said.
Mr Holding said that 2008 would see the Victorian Government continue to
raise the bar on health and safety by responding to the recommendations of the
OHS Act review, carried out in 2007, as well as working with the Federal
Government and other states to increase OHS harmonisation across Australia
THE ONLY WAY THAT THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT COULD RAISE
THE BAR FOR VICTORIAN WORKERS MR HOLDING, IS TO SACK
WORKSAFE COMPLETELY, AND FOR YOU TO STOP TELLING US LIES!
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