Safety Ambassador Zoey Jenkins
Background information
I am currently a SHE Coordinator and have been working in OHS for 3 ½ years. Prior to working in safety I worked in HR, training and recruitment. I am also presently studying a Graduate Certificate in OH&S Management, and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training & Assessment.
Why workplace safety is important to me
Workplace safety is important to me as I think that everyone, no matter their job, deserves to come home at the end of their work day in the same, or better, condition they arrived in. Some of us have to work, some of us choose to work, but we should all be able to work safely and free of injury or illness.
Workplace safety is also very important to me as I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend – if I get injured at work, it doesn’t just affect me or my work. The effects of workplace injury are too far reaching for us not to take safety seriously.
My plans for national Safe Work Australia Week
I am organising a Health Expo for employees at one of the sites I am involved with. This will focus on five key risk factors in preventing chronic disease – unhealthy eating, physical inactivity, overweight & obesity, tobacco use and harmful alcohol use. Taking a different approach – focusing on employee health rather than safety at the workplace – I am hoping to assist our employees in making lifestyle choices to address these risk factors and help them to be healthy enough to remain active and productive participants in the workplace.
I am organising exhibitors, show bags, give aways and lots of information and toolkits that our employees can take home and utilise.
Why I accepted the role as a national Safe Work Australia Week Safety Ambassador
As a safety professional and a safety student I think that Safe Work Australia Week is an ideal time to promote safety issues within the workplace and for us all to stop and think about safety. For me, I feel it is important to promote Safe Work Australia Week to my fellow employees to keep them thinking about their health and safety, and that of their fellow employees.
Page last updated: 18/10/2009