We are South Australia's workplace health and safety regulator.

We offer:

Advice & education

Our Help Centre provides a valuable education and information service on licensing and work health & safety, receiving over 45,000 calls and emails from customers per year. The most common enquiries are related to:

Our advisory service offers a free service to help you to better understand your responsibilities and keep yourself and your workers safe. Our advisors will come to your workplace and tailor the advice to suit your industry, size, risk and complexity.

Inspections

Our inspectors visit business to ensure those with a duty of care fulfil their obligations to provide workers and others with a safe workplace. Our inspectors:

  • conduct regular workplace inspections
  • perform proactive compliance audits
  • respond to incidents that have exposed or caused injury to a person.

Reporting

SafeWork SA is a business unit within the Attorney-General's Department and is accountable to the Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector.

We release an Annual Activity Report and our priorities and goals are outlined in our Strategic Plan. Safe Work Australia's National Compliance and Enforcement Policy sets out our approach to compliance and enforcement activities.

Contributing to the national agenda

As the South Australian Work Health and Safety regulator, Glenn Farrell, SafeWork SA’s Executive Director, is South Australia’s representative of Safe Work Australia. Safe Work Australia develops national policy relating to work health and safety and workers’ compensation in consultation with its members.

SafeWork SA also participates as a member of the Heads of Workplace Safety Authorities (HWSA) organisation, along with other Australian and New Zealand work health and safety regulators.

HWSA promotes and implements better practice in work health and safety policy, legislation, education and enforcement.

SafeWork SA is a signatory to the Memorandum of Understanding between the Heads of Workplace Safety Authorities that has been reviewed and signed by all jurisdictions.

The Memorandum of Understanding is reviewed by HWSA every two years and continues until it is replaced.

List of HWSA Members as given in the Memorandum of Understanding between the Heads of Workplace Safety Authorities:

  • Comcare
  • NT WorkSafe
  • SafeWork NSW
  • SafeWork SA
  • Workplace Health and Safety QLD
  • WorkSafe ACT
  • WorkSafe NZ
  • WorkSafe Tasmania
  • WorkSafe VIC
  • WorkSafe WA