The Hon. Sophie Cotsis MP

Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Work Health and Safety · NSW Government · company speakers →

<p>The Hon. Sophie Cotsis MP is the New South Wales Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Work Health and Safety and Member for Canterbury.</p> <p>A proud advocate for better, safer &amp; productive workplaces,</p> <p>Before entering Parliament, Minister Cotsis worked in the hospitality industry, as well as representing working people, worked in the private &amp; public sector, where she developed a deep commitment to community wellbeing.</p> <p>Minister Cotsis served in the Legislative Council before being elected as the Member for Canterbury in a Byelection.</p> <p>Since her appointment as Minister in 2023, she has re-established the NSW Industrial Court and sought to modernise the state&rsquo;s industrial relations and work health and safety frameworks.</p> <p>This has included making the biggest amendments to the state&rsquo;s industrial relations and work health and safety frameworks in more than 30 years.</p> <p>Minister Cotsis has also led the reformation of icare into a fit for purpose organisation to manage the state&rsquo;s insurance schemes. Minister Cotsis has made significant strides to protect workers from deadly dust diseases, including NSW leading the nationwide ban on engineered stone, establishing a Silica Worker Register, implemented a Tunnelling Dust Safety Taskforce and securing $5 million in critical funding for silicosis research and $2.5 million for a state-of-the-art Lung Bus which travels around NSW.</p> <p>On July 1, 2025, she established Safe Work NSW as an independent regulator with an accompanying $127.7 million investment over four years, which includes creating 51 new Safe Work NSW inspector positions specialising in psychosocial harms and expanding the inspectorate.</p>

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