SafeWork NSW offers rebates to small businesses and sole traders in NSW who buy and install equipment that makes their workplace safer.

If you are a small business owner in NSW, this $1,000 rebate will help you purchase safety items to improve work health and safety for you and your workers. 

The business owner must complete an eligible SafeWork NSW education activity in the 12 months prior to applying. An eligible education activity includes either an inspector interaction or eligible event.

Due to a high number of applications, they are experiencing delays processing applications and payments. It may take up to 8 weeks to receive payment of approved applications.

To apply for a rebate for an eligible safety item, you must own an 'eligible business' and meet the following criteria:

Eligible business:

An eligible business is one which:

• is registered in NSW and/or is operating a place of business within NSW. A business must have a current ABN and have been operating as a business for at least the past 6 months
• produces goods or provides services in NSW
• falls within the scope of the NSW Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act), and
• either:
  • employs between 0-50 full-time workers (or an equivalent number of part-time workers, as defined in section 7 of the WHS Act), or
  • is a charitable or not-for-profit service, that employs between 1-50 full-time workers (or an equivalent number of part-time workers, as defined in section 7 of the WHS Act).

Eligible education activity

• The business owner (of a business that is not a charity or not-for-profit service) must attend a SafeWork NSW education activity before claiming the rebate and no more than 12 months prior to the date the application is submitted. 
• Your business must have had a current ABN at the time you attended the activity.
• You cannot apply for a rebate if someone else, including a worker in your business, attended the SafeWork NSW education activity on your behalf.
• In the case of multiple business owners, the business owner who attended the eligible SafeWork NSW education activity must also be the applicant and complete the Declaration. 
• In the case of not-for-profit organisations and charities, an authorised representative must attend a SafeWork NSW education activity - no more than 12 months prior to the date the application is submitted. The authorised representative must also be the applicant and complete the declaration.

Your business and/or its authorised representative must be solvent on the date of applying for the rebate.

No conflict of interest

Your business and/or its authorised representative must not have a conflict of interest, as defined in clause 6 of these terms and conditions.

• Phone: 13 10 50
• Email: safetyrebate@safework.nsw.gov.au
• Website: https://www.nsw.gov.au/ask-a-question-about-small-business-rebate