National safety supplier and services franchise SafetyQuip was today announced as a BRW Fast Franchise - ranked 31 on the 2010 list.
SafetyQuip founder and CEO Gary Shearer has identified the fragmentation of Australian safety laws as one of the country's most important OH&S issues. "The Australian Government, through the coordinating efforts of Julia Gillard, is moving towards a national approach to safety regulations combining the states/territories in a workable equation...and from our point of view it can't happen soon enough."
"One of our company's strengths is its ability to wade through workplace health and safety legislation that varies profoundly state by state - and it makes us conscious of the folly of multiple, duplicative and confusing statutes," Mr Shearer said. "Around the country, our franchisees are advising industry of their obligations and legal requirements on a daily basis because our business is all about preventing often unnecessary pain and suffering." "It is not commonly known that workplace accidents and illnesses kill and injure as many Australians every year as are killed and harmed on our roads. The media tend to place less emphasis on reporting about the ones who don't come home from work or who will never work again. The small to medium business owner is expected to wade through mountains of compliance issues that vary state to state when all he needs is a common set of rules," said Mr Shearer. The BRW Fast Franchises list ranks companies according to their average annual turnover growth over three years. According to the business magazine, the entrepreneurs running the BRW Fast Franchises are extremely confident about their futures. Commenting on SafetyQuip's success in the annual BRW ratings, Gary Shearer said: "Safety is a significant growth industry. Our company is Australia's only franchised player in full scope workplace health and safety supplies and services - in a multi-billion dollar market." "In terms of potential for our current and future franchisees, we believe that the safety business is the kind of ground floor opportunity that McDonalds was 20 years ago and Subway 10 years ago." "We have established a potent combination, enabling motivated franchisees to build businesses of considerable value and we are actively looking for the right people to fulfil a vital role in local communities by establishing locally owned and operated SafetyQuip franchise businesses." Mr Shearer concluded: "A national approach to workplace health and safety is an obvious and practical step forward in protecting the lives and wellbeing of millions of Australian workers. The recent home insulation debacle demonstrates shortcomings with fatal outcomes in all levels of workplace health and safety." SafetyQuip is a B2B franchise business distributing safety products and services through its national network of franchisees in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia. Franchisees may join with little or no safety knowledge as they undertake intensive training in their new business and respected career.
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