In 1957 the Footscray Rotary Club convened a meeting of representatives from local firms interested in the promotion of safety within industry.  They resolved to set up a formal organisation that they named the Western Suburbs Safety Group.
In the early 80’s following a request from the DLI to include more of the western district of Victoria but at the same time wanting to acknowledge and retain their roots the name of the group was changed to the Footscray & Western Safety Group. with the slogan of “Fostering Safety Throughout the Community”
This was Victoria’s first regional safety group.  Since then many other groups have been formed around Melbourne and in country areas.

With the greater awareness and emphasis on safety in the nineties, the Group expanded its area and activities to include more industries over a larger area of the Western Suburbs and in 1997 went through the process of incorporation and changed its name to the Western Safety Group Incorporated with a new logo embracing that iconic symbol of the west, the Westgate Bridge

Since it’s inception the Group has met continuously on the last Tuesday of the month except December and January in a range of places such as Commonwealth Fertilizers, the Footscray RSL, Footscray Electrical Supply premises,..Smorgon ARC, Amcor Fibre Packaging, SBA Foods, Nufarm, and Oxford Cold Storage

Over the years the Group has always been strongly supported and encouraged by the industrial safety regulatory authority in all its guises from the Victorian Department Of Labour through to the current day WorkSafe Victoria.