1. Who we are

Your information is being collected by the Department of Customer Service (the Department) on behalf of the Commissioner for NSW Fair Trading. NSW Fair Trading gives priority to protecting the privacy of your personal information, in accordance with the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (PPIP Act).

If you have any questions about this privacy collection notice, or how we handle your personal information, you can contact our Privacy team using the contact details below.

2. Why we collect your personal information

SafeWork NSW is collecting your personal information for the purposes of seeking your feedback on amendments to the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017 (NSW) (WHS Regulation) as part of a remake of the WHS Regulation.

3. The kinds of information we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • Your name.
  • Your email address.
  • Some information to understand who you are or your role.
  • Your feedback and opinion on the topic.*
  • Any additional personal or health information if it is provided in free-text fields or your submission.
  • If you are registered for the Have Your Say site, the Department will be able to see your login or username, email address and hometown or suburb associated with your submission, even if you choose to answer the survey anonymously.

4. Failure to provide information

Your information is provided voluntarily, however if you choose not to provide your information, we may not be able to send you updates and outcomes of this public consultation or contact you about your submission.

5. How we may use this information

We may use the information we collect in the following ways:

  • To create a report on the outcome of this consultation and publish submissions on the NSW Government Have Your Say Website. If you have chosen to remain anonymous. your responses will be referred to as such. Your responses or submission will be kept private if you have indicated this preference.
  • To share your responses or submission (including any personal information) with SafeWork NSW.
  • Internal administrative purposes, including providing you with occasional updates and outcomes on this topic.
  • To contact you about your submission. 
  • To support more informed policy making, program management, evaluation, research, and service planning, as it can facilitate more efficient service delivery for residents and businesses in NSW. 
  • We may share personal information you provide with other parts of the Department, including the Data Analytics Centre, for the purposes of conducting analysis across all consultations and to refine our engagement methodology. 
  • Other directly related purposes.

6. Who we may share your information with

Your responses, along with your name and/or company/organisation, may be published in a report on the outcome of this consultation, and submissions may be published on the NSW Government Have Your Say Website, should you agree for us to do so. Your responses may be published anonymously without your name, or your responses may be kept private, depending on what you have agreed to in this survey or your submission. 

The Have Your Say site is owned and operated by the Department using software licensed from Social Pinpoint. For details of how Social Pinpoint may access personal information, please refer to Social Pinpoint’s Privacy Policy.

We will not disclose your personal information to anybody unless we are authorised or permitted to do so by law or where you give consent. Our Privacy Statement describes when this may occur. 

7. Protecting your information

We will store and manage your information in accordance with the provisions of the PPIP and HRIP Acts. We have measures in place to help protect your personal information from loss, unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure, or other misuse.

We will only keep information for as long as we need it to fulfil the purposes which we collected it for. After this, the information will be disposed of securely in accordance with the State Records Act 1998 and any other applicable legislation.

See our Privacy Management Plan for more information about how we handle your personal information.

8. Your rights

Subject to certain conditions, you have the following rights in relation to your personal information:

  • The right to request access to your personal information.
  • The right to request correction of your personal information.

If you wish to invoke any of the above rights, please contact us using the contact details below.

Updates on this topic are offered as an ‘opt in’ subscription. You can 'opt out' at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the emailed update.

If you unsubscribe, your information may not be permanently deleted from the service provider system and instead, stored on a suppression list that prevents future emails from being sent to your email address.

To have your data permanently removed from the suppression list database, please send a request to: YourSay@customerservice.nsw.gov.au

9. Contact us

If you would like to make a privacy enquiry or complaint, you can contact us at FTPrivacy@customerservice.nsw.gov.au.

*Any information you provide via your feedback or opinion that includes 'health information' is afforded a higher level of protection under the HRIP Act.