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Retail safety spans stores, distribution centres, and support offices, often across many locations. We recruit health and safety professionals who can work with teams across a large and varied network.
Roles we recruit
Safety Advisor
Injury Management Advisor
Return to Work Coordinator
Wellbeing Coordinator
National Safety Manager
Some of the roles we’re recruiting in this space.
How we work
We take the time to understand your business, the role, and what you’re looking for before starting a search. From there, we identify and assess suitable candidates, keeping you informed and offering advice throughout the process.
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What safety work looks like in retail
Retail health and safety looks after people in stores, distribution centres, and support offices. In stores, common risks include manual handling, slips and trips, ladders and stock storage, and customer aggression, which we’re hearing about more often from retail employers. Distribution centres bring forklifts, conveyors, and high-volume manual handling, and across the business, young and casual workers and seasonal peaks add to the challenge of keeping everyone trained and safe.
The roles we recruit
The roles range from advisors supporting a group of stores to people setting the safety direction for a national network, including:
Safety Advisor
Injury Management Advisor
Return to Work Coordinator
Wellbeing Coordinator
National Safety Manager
What good looks like in a hire
A Cert IV or Diploma in WHS is a common baseline. What really matters in retail is the ability to influence store and area managers who are juggling sales, staffing, and customers, so practical, simple safety programs tend to work far better than complex ones. Injury management and return to work roles need knowledge of the scheme in each state the business operates in, as national retailers often deal with several at once. Wellbeing roles need to reach a large, spread-out, and often part-time workforce in ways that genuinely help.
The market in Australia
Retail safety roles usually cover a wide footprint, so people who are comfortable travelling and working through others are valued. We’re seeing customer aggression and psychosocial risk move up the agenda, and experience across injury management and wellbeing is increasingly sought after. Candidates from logistics, hospitality, and other multi-site businesses can transfer well, which can widen the field when a role is harder to recruit.
If you’re recruiting for your stores, distribution centres, or support office, Submit a vacancy and we’ll be in touch within one business day, and if you’re looking for your next retail safety role, take a look at our current opportunities.
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