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When you're on a farm and you're doing work for yourself,
you have to be out there in all sorts of climate.
Antojitos is a Mexican street food restaurant.
Most of the foods that we offer are
eat with your hands style of food,
so we love it when people forego the cutlery
and decide to get into it.
Approximately two million people visit us annually
and from the wholesale side of the business,
approximately 200 buyers visit us from Monday to Friday
to purchase wholesale seafood.
One of the key things that we try to promote
within our company is the early reporting
of hazards and incidents.
And I think that if people are more inclined to report,
then they've got more chance to fix the problem
before it actually causes harm.
We first got involved with SafeWork
through an email talking about the mentoring program.
It was a free program offered by SafeWork
that we could be involved with.
I think the focus of WorkCover was a big stick.
I would never have thought about picking up the phone and calling.
But since my involvement with SafeWork NSW
I think the ethos is totally different.
Our staff are our number one priority.
So we felt it was really important
to meet with SafeWork.
Meeting with the inspector was a very simple process.
He was very friendly.
He came out, provided a lot of great suggestions for us
in helping improve the workplace.
SafeWork put a rebate out there for beef / sheep farmers
to use for different means.
We decided to put a cover over our crush.
It's up on top of the hill, which
catches a lot of wind and sun, and it's just a pure relief
to get in out of the sun at times.
Changing a culture that's so ingrained like it is here
at Sydney Fish Markets is quite a challenge.
But with the support of SafeWork NSW, and the variety of programs
they have on offer, it makes life so much easier.
Having that collaborative relationship with SafeWork
does help because it's now more a case
that people will discuss their problems rather than hide them.
I know that when I contact them
the information I'm getting back is reliable. It's unbiased. It's beneficial.
Our involvement with SafeWork has
impacted our business in that it definitely has given us
more work commercially.
We can take on bigger jobs because
they'll ask for our systems and we can offer that
now that we've been involved with SafeWork.
I think it's a great thing to be able to ring up and talk
to somebody and be able to get some advice that I can actually
rely on to be correct for what we're doing.
I feel confident now to give them a call, ask for advice,
and I'll get closer to a solution a lot quicker
by having made that phone call, having them come to our sites.
We've been able to provide a safer work environment,
a happier place for our employees to work,
and ultimately a more profitable business.
Being able to sleep at night knowing
I've done my best to keep our workers safe
was the most important thing for me.
It's a safe place. I call it a safe place because
you can talk about the challenges you're facing
in your business and be confident that
you're going to get some assistance.
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