The Migrant Workers Centre established the Multicultural Safety Ambassadors Program in 2019 with funding from the Victorian State Government to help migrant communities to understand and exercise their workplace safety rights.
Migrant workers face many barriers to ensuring they are safe at work, such as limited access to adequate in-language resources, misconceptions about their workplace rights, fear of repercussions for taking action, and a lack of information about services available to them.
The program trains members of Victorian migrant communities to become Multicultural Safety Ambassadors, who are supported to deliver face-to-face education sessions on good workplace health and safety practices.
Among the first ambassadors nominated, there is also an Italian: Fabrizio Venturini, President of the association NOMIT, who explained how the new Ambassadors can play an active role to inform the newly arrived migrants within the CALD communities of Victoria.
