Management provides safety leadership and takes responsibility for creating and promoting a safety culture. Management demonstrate commitment to safety by introducing and enforcing compliance with OHS policies and procedures. Management also encourage and promote safety by evaluating the safety performance of all employees, including YWs, and offering clear and consistent rewards for contributing to workplace safety.

Management accept full responsibility for providing safe equipment and a safe workplace at all times.

Safety is defined and measured through reviews, reports, investigations, hazard identification, risk assessments, safety inspections and attending OHS training and network meetings. By doing these things, management, supervisors and employees, including YWs, all understand exactly what is safe and what is not.

Everyone in the workplace, including YWs, receives timely, relevant, and practical support to put safety before production. Adequate time as well as appropriate financial and human resources are commited to OHS to allow everyone to work safely, including YWs.

The budget allocated to OHS demonstrates an understanding among employers, supervisors and employees that OHS is a business investment. Everyone in the workplace recognises that the costs associated with ignoring OHS can be much higher.

There is also an understanding across the entire organisation of the direct and unnecessary costs resulting from inadequate OHS funding, e.g. higher insurance premiums, disruption to business, ongoing lost production from worker absence, compensation, fines / legal proceedings, repairing and replacing damaged equipment, lost wages and possible costs of retraining for a different job, first aid, medical and rehabilitation costs.

OHS information is collected, analysed and reviewed by employers and supervisors and shared with all employees, including YWs. All staff, including YWs, have access to adequate information and training in order to identify hazards, assess and manage risk. Regular, scheduled OHS consultation with all employees, including YW, is used to improve workplace safety.

Supervisors and OHS representatives have adequate OHS training and support to carry out their duties.

There are a comprehensive set of OHS policies, procedures and systems to guide and protect the safety of everyone affected by the workplace, including YWs. In organisations employing YWs on a regular basis, there is a separate OHS policy for YWs. After regularly scheduled reviews, employers update these as appropriate.

There is an OHS Committee or OHS Representative elected by employees, including YWs, which holds formal meetings and keeps records. OHS Representatives are adequately trained to meet their responsibilities.

OHS incidents such as near-misses, accidents and injuries are recorded and thoroughly investigated. The focus is on learning what went wrong, why it happened and how it can be prevented in the future, rather than who did it.

Management regularly schedule OHS consultation with all staff, including YWs, to check that the workplace is as safe as possible. The results of these consultations are also communicated with all staff.