The South Australian public sector needs to continue to improve its safety performance and model best practice in order to positively contribute to South Australia's Strategic Plan Target 2.11: Greater Safety at Work: achieve the nationally agreed target of 40% reduction in injury during 2002-2012.The "Safety in the Public Sector 2007-2010" strategy provides an across government framework for sustainable safety performance that promotes safety as a means of improving business performance and reducing the human social and financial cost of injury and associated impacts on service performance.