Minister for Work Health and Safety

The Minister for Work Health and Safety is a minister in the New South Wales Government concerned with workplace conditions, particularly safety.^[1]

Minister for Work Health and Safety
Incumbent Sophie Cotsis since 5 April 2023
New South Wales Treasury Department of Customer Service
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Governor of New South Wales
Inaugural holder	Sophie Cotsis
Formation	5 April 2023

It is a separate portfolio from Industrial Relations but both are currently held by The Hon. Sophie Cotsis MP.

List of ministers

Ministerial title	Minister [2]	Party		Ministry	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
Minister for the Gig Economy	Daniel Mookhey		Labor	Minns	28 March 2023	5 April 2023	8 days
Minister for Work Health and Safety	Sophie Cotsis				5 April 2023	incumbent	2 years, 44 days

Related ministerial titles

Industrial Relations

Minister [2]	Party		Ministerial title	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
Jacob Garrard		Free Trade	Minister of Public Instruction Minister for Labour and Industry	11 March 1895	15 August 1898	3 years, 157 days
James Hogue				27 August 1898	13 September 1899	1 year, 17 days
John Perry		Protectionist		14 September 1899	27 March 1901	4 years, 274 days
		Progressive		28 March 1901	14 June 1904
John Fegan				17 June 1904	29 August 1904	73 days
Broughton O'Conor		Liberal Reform		29 August 1904	13 May 1907	2 years, 257 days
James Hogue				14 May 1907	1 October 1907	140 days
William Wood			Minister for Labour and Industry	2 October 1907	21 January 1908	111 days
James Hogue				22 January 1908	20 October 1910	2 years, 271 days
George Beeby		Labor		21 October 1910	10 September 1911	324 days
Campbell Carmichael				11 September 1911	26 November 1911	76 days
George Beeby				27 November 1911	9 December 1912	1 year, 12 days
Campbell Carmichael				10 December 1912	29 June 1913	201 days
James McGowen				30 June 1913	29 January 1914	213 days
John Estell				29 January 1914	31 October 1916	2 years, 276 days
Henry Hoyle				31 October 1916	15 November 1916	15 days
George Beeby		Nationalist		15 November 1916	23 July 1919	2 years, 250 days
Augustus James				23 July 1919	12 April 1920	264 days
George Cann		Labor		12 April 1920	10 October 1921	1 year, 181 days
Greg McGirr			Minister for Labour	10 October 1921	20 December 1921	71 days
Thomas Ley		Nationalist	Minister of Public Instruction and Labour and Industry	20 December 1921	20 December 1921	7 hours
Edward Kavanagh		Labor	Minister for Labour	20 December 1921	13 April 1922	114 days
Ernest Farrar		Nationalist	Minister for Labour and Industry	13 April 1922	17 June 1925	3 years, 65 days
Jack Baddeley		Labor		17 June 1925	18 October 1927	2 years, 123 days
Ernest Farrar		Nationalist		18 October 1927	3 November 1930	3 years, 16 days
Jack Baddeley		Labor		4 November 1930	15 October 1931	345 days
		Labor (NSW)		15 October 1931	13 May 1932	211 days
John Dunningham		Nationalist		16 May 1932	26 May 1938	6 years, 10 days
Alexander Mair				1 June 1938	13 October 1938	134 days
Herbert Hawkins				13 October 1938	16 June 1939	246 days
Athol Richardson				26 June 1939	5 August 1939	51 days
			Minister for Labour and Industry and Social Services	5 August 1939	16 August 1939
George Gollan				16 August 1939	16 May 1941	1 year, 273 days
Hamilton Knight		Labor		16 May 1941	6 February 1947	5 years, 266 days
			Minister for Labour and Industry and Social Welfare	6 February 1947	29 October 1947
Jack Baddeley				29 October 1947	9 March 1948	132 days
Frank Finnan				9 March 1948	30 June 1950	4 years, 351 days
			Minister for Labour and Industry	30 June 1950	23 February 1953
Abe Landa				23 February 1953	15 March 1956	3 years, 21 days
Jim Maloney				15 March 1956	13 May 1965	9 years, 59 days
Eric Willis		Liberal		13 May 1965	11 March 1971	5 years, 302 days
Frederick Hewitt				11 March 1971	14 May 1976	5 years, 64 days
Paul Landa		Labor	Minister for Industrial Relations	14 May 1976	9 August 1976	87 days
Pat Hills				9 August 1976	4 July 1986	11 years, 225 days
			Minister for Industrial Relations Minister for Employment	4 July 1986	21 March 1988
John Fahey		Liberal	Minister for Industrial Relations and Employment	25 March 1988	24 July 1990	4 years, 100 days
			Minister for Industrial Relations Minister for Further Education, Training and Employment	24 July 1990	3 July 1992
John Hannaford			Minister for Industrial Relations	3 July 1992	26 May 1993	327 days
Kerry Chikarovski			Minister for Industrial Relations and Employment	26 May 1993	4 April 1995	1 year, 313 days
Jeff Shaw		Labor	Minister for Industrial Relations	4 April 1995	28 June 2000	6 years, 85 days
John Della Bosca				28 June 2000	13 June 2008	7 years, 351 days
Eric Roozendaal				13 June 2008	8 September 2008	87 days
Tony Kelly				8 September 2008	11 September 2008	2 days
John Hatzistergos				11 September 2008	8 December 2009	1 year, 88 days
John Robertson				8 December 2009	21 May 2010	164 days
Paul Lynch				21 May 2010	28 March 2011	311 days
Mike Baird		Liberal	Minister for Industrial Relations	12 September 2012	17 April 2014	1 year, 217 days
Mike Gallacher				23 April 2014	7 May 2014	14 days
Andrew Constance				7 May 2014	2 April 2015	330 days
Gladys Berejiklian				2 April 2015	30 January 2017	1 year, 303 days
Dominic Perrottet				30 January 2017	23 March 2019	2 years, 52 days	[3]
Don Harwin		Liberal	Minister for the Public Service and Employee Relations, Aboriginal Affairs, and the Arts	2 April 2019	15 April 2020	1 year, 13 days	[4][5]
Gladys Berejiklian (acting)				15 April 2020	3 July 2020	79 days	[6][7]
Don Harwin				3 July 2020	21 December 2021	1 year, 171 days	[8]
Damien Tudehope			Minister for Employee Relations	21 December 2021	23 February 2023	1 year, 64 days	[9]
Dominic Perrottet				23 February 2023	28 March 2023	33 days
Daniel Mookhey		Labor	Minister for the Gig Economy	28 March 2023	5 April 2023	8 days
Sophie Cotsis			Minister for Industrial Relations	5 April 2023	incumbent	2 years, 44 days

This section is an excerpt from Minister for Industrial Relations (New South Wales) § List of ministers.[edit]

See also

• New South Wales portal
• Politics portal

• List of New South Wales government agencies