To All Sydney Markets Tenants

Sydney Markets Safety Blueprint

In November 2024, we engaged external organisation dss+, to conduct a review on the current state of the Market’s health and safety culture. This review included consultation with key Market stakeholders, and we want to thank those who took the time to provide their feedback and perspectives. 

Most importantly, we wanted to give you an overview of the review results and what we are going to do next. 

The review acknowledges the governance changes already underway which aim to improve the focus on, and effective implementation of risk and safety improvements. It also recognises that the stakeholders of Sydney Markets are proud and committed to the success of the Markets, with a strong desire to see improvement, and be engaged in making changes that secure a safe, long and successful tenures for all those who work and operate here.  

The review identified three key areas where we can make safety improvements. 

1. Traffic management 

2. Waste management 

3. Unauthorised access 

Maintaining the health, safety and wellbeing of everyone who enters the Markets is our highest priority, and we are committed to strengthening safety processes and capabilities to drive consistent practices and improve our safety culture. 

We are working on an integrated safety plan that will involve systematic changes over the next 18 months to the way we do things, starting with:

• Adopting a consistent approach to compliance. This will ensure a fair process is applied to those who are not abiding by site traffic standards, with the aim to reduce the number of repeat infringements. 
• Adapting waste management processes. This aims to set the parameters for a clean and clear site.
• Managing site access to limit entry to outside of trading times. This aims to restrict customer interaction during set up and pack down times.  

We will keep you informed as we progress through the plan and consult you as we integrate the changes into our ways of working. We welcome your feedback by contacting us on safety@sydneymarkets.com.  

Rest assured, these are not just words. We want to make real, lasting change. We ask everyone in the Sydney Markets community to work together to ensure it is safe. We all deserve the right to work in a safe environment. Let’s achieve it together. After all, We are Sydney Markets.  

Kind regards 

DALE DOONAN

Acting Chief Executive Officer

STEPHEN RUSSELL 

Chief Operating Officer 

12 May 2025

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