Front Line Innovation Grants - 2025

FLI Grants have been developed to fund short-term projects addressing health and safety issues that affect the daily lives of miners. This could be in your workplace or your local community.

Grant priorities include:

• Illnesses caused by dust and other airborne contaminants
• Mental health
• Obesity
• Musculoskeletal injuries
• Serious injury causal factors
• Fatigue

Consideration will also be given to applications that address any issue that you believe could be addressed to improve health and safety issues in the coal industry.

Who can apply?

Applications are invited from within the mining sector and local communities who have an innovative idea to improve health and safety that they would test for its viability.

Whether you’re an innovator with a safety solution or an individual with a promising concept, they support a variety of perspectives in driving progress in workplace and community health and safety.

What funding is available?

The Health & Safety Trust has allocated an annual fund of $100,000 to award Front Line Innovation Grants.

The amounts will be awarded as a combination of various amounts across two grant rounds in any given year (i.e. 10 x $10k grants).

Each application will be assessed on the individual merits of the application. Success in gaining a portion of the annual funding will be dependent on the idea and its potential impact and improvement on health and safety within the NSW and Australian Coal Industry.