{"id":49206,"date":"2025-03-20T23:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T23:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/?p=49206"},"modified":"2025-05-15T01:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T01:16:30","slug":"why-20-of-workers-dont-feel-safe-in-their-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/news\/why-20-of-workers-dont-feel-safe-in-their-workplace","title":{"rendered":"Why 20% of workers don&#8217;t feel safe in their workplace\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new survey, commissioned by COS, of 1,000 Australian workers shows that 80% of employees believe that their place of work prioritises their health and safety, a marked increase from the 70% shown in a 2023 survey. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, data from Safe Work Australia shows that workplace compensation claims have also risen.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with The Times, Amie Lyone, Co-CEO of COS shared her thoughts on the rapid rise of both feelings of safety and compensation claims, as well as detailing some of the ways in which COS is constantly improving workplace health and safety practices.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more about workplace health and safety, click <a href=\"https:\/\/thetimes.com.au\/sme-business-news\/39143-why-20-of-workers-don-t-feel-safe-in-their-workplace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style3 like-49206 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='49206' data-nonce='267e949fe3' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Did you find this useful?' \/><span class='lc-49206 lc'>+2<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style3 unlike-49206 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='49206' data-nonce='267e949fe3' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='' \/><span class='unlc-49206 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-49206 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey, commissioned by COS, of 1,000 Australian workers shows that 80% of employees believe that their place of work prioritises their health and safety, a marked increase from the 70% shown in a 2023 survey. \u00a0 At the same time, data from Safe Work Australia shows that workplace compensation claims have also risen.\u00a0 &#8230; <a title=\"Why 20% of workers don&#8217;t feel safe in their workplace\u00a0\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/news\/why-20-of-workers-dont-feel-safe-in-their-workplace\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why 20% of workers don&#8217;t feel safe in their workplace\u00a0\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":49213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49209,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49206\/revisions\/49209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}