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What are you doing for Safe Work Australia Week (SWAW)?

If you haven't got a plan for how you, your business and employees will take part in Safe Work Australia Week 2009, now is your chance.

It's important to use the week to make you and your workplace healthier and safer. As a state, let's band together with the rest of Australia in this national week to make workplace health and safety everybody's focus.

There are two ways you can get involved:

Participate in one of WHSQ's many activities across Queensland
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) is hosting a week full of activities with a major event happening each day during SWAW. View our event calendar to find out more.
Run an activity or event in your workplace
Here are some ideas to help you start planning your activity:

Activities and events
Housekeeping	hold an office clean up day to ensure workplaces are safe and clean conduct your own workplace health and safety inspection
Fun and interactive	produce a daily safety quiz or trivia session organise a hazard hunt in your workplace coordinate a safety competition - design a safety poster or suggest a safety slogan hold a staff BBQ and discuss your organisation's commitment to health and safety
Fitness	organise a staff health assessment and gym visit encourage staff to take a break and exercise to improve alertness and physical wellbeing, i.e. walk, swim, run, yoga, volley ball, soccer, bike riding, indoor cricket etc enter a work team into a local sports competition
Healthy eating	hold breakfast, morning tea or lunch events hold company BBQs or picnics invite a doctor to your workplace to talk about health and wellbeing
Training and learning	hold a health and safety information session hold a 'meet your safety team' day conduct safety training seminars discussion forums conferences workshops
Workplace procedures	review your safety procedures create an OHS suggestion box coordinate an OHS committee talk to staff about important health and safety topics in your workplace, i.e. stress, fatigue, sun exposure, manual tasks, first aid procedures etc hold a brief discussion on a safe work procedure every day during Safe Work Australia Week encourage staff to identify and speak up about a health and safety issue in their area

Ideas to promote your involvement in SWAW:

place a message on your staff intranet or bulletin board
announce your activities through your staff sound system
put a message on your organisation's website
put an article in your staff newsletter
encourage staff to apply a health and safety message to their email signature
email staff, advising them that Safe Work Australia Week is happening and encourage them to come up with some activities to mark the occasion
include a safety message on staff payslips.

A suite of downloadable resources are currently being produced to assist you to promote SWAW in your workplace. These will be available soon so come back to see what you can use to promote SWAW to your staff.

Note: You don't have to do it on your own. Host an event or activity in partnership with local stakeholders.