A new campaign seeks to highlight the dangers of food delivery work. 

Safe Work Australia has launched the Deliver yourself home safely campaign to increase awareness and knowledge of work health and safety among food delivery workers. 

Safe Work Australia data shows there have tragically been 10 fatalities of food delivery workers since 2019. 

The new campaign provides food delivery workers with practical information and key contact details to help influence positive work health and safety attitudes and behaviours. 

Given the high proportion of food delivery workers who have English as a second language, the campaign will communicate in Mandarin, Punjabi, Nepali, Vietnamese, Hindi and Urdu. All materials will also be available in English.

The campaign website has information on work health and safety risks and hazards, rights and duties, what food delivery workers can do to keep safe, dealing with abuse and extreme weather conditions, work health and safety consultation, and workers’ compensation. 

The Deliver yourself home safely campaign kit has posters, checklists, social media tiles, infographics, and fact sheets.

More details are accessible here.