New WHS profile examines risks for sales and service workers
11 Aug 2026•BlueSafe Team•Source: Safe Work Australia
Safe Work Australia has released a WHS data profile covering Australia’s sales and service workforce, which includes more than 2.3 million people.
The profile examines workers in hospitality, retail and food trades. It covers workforce demographics, workplace hazards and the injuries most commonly experienced across these industries, which form one of Australia’s largest and youngest workforces.
The findings bring together information from Safe Work Australia’s National Dataset for Compensation-based Statistics, the SuperFriend Indicators of a Thriving Workplace Survey and ABS Census data.
The profile is intended to help industry and regulators better understand and manage WHS risks for sales and service workers. It is available on Safe Work Australia’s Our Data. Your Stories. website, alongside other worker profiles.
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