WorkSafe Victoria has secured the participation of Sydney-based, mixed media artist Jonathan Zawada in their latest campaign aimed at reducing incidences of work-place injury amongst young people.

Phase II of the Big Mouth Project, a collaboration between some of the world’s most talented artists and WorkSafe Victoria, aims to spread the word amongst young people about speaking up and being safe at work.

Zawada is just one artist who has been engaged by WorkSafe Victoria to carry out their campaign of awareness. Earlier this year, the Big Mouth Project launched with London-based sculptor and stencil artist, D*Face, designing and placing a giant sculpture of a loudhailer out the front of Melbourne’s biggest mouth, Luna Park, to illustrate his approach to speaking up on workplace safety.

Reknowned typographer Luke Lucas, co-founder of Melbourne-based creative agency Lifelounge, was also brought on board to provide the campaign logo.

Given an open brief Zawada developed a zine consisting of digital drawings around the letters that form the campaign message – ‘Speak Up, Be Work Safe’. Coming from a background in mixed media, website design, illustration and fabric prints, and art direction, Zawada has worked with music, art and fashion clients like The Presets, Modular Records, BMW and Ksubi. In 2008 he took home the ARIA award for “Best Artwork” for the album cover of The Presets #1 Australian Triple Platinum album Apocalypso.

These credentials put him in good stead for Worksafe Victoria's youth-oriented campaign, which is seeking to address the unfortunate fact that people aged between 15 and 24 are twice as likely to sustain a workplace injury and be hospitalised than any other age group. Injuries range from minor to fatal and the Big Mouth Project aims to give young workers the confidence to speak out about safety related issues at work.

For further information please visit bigmouthproject.com.