About the campaign
The Stay On Your Feet® Remove Hazards campaign will run from 1st September to 30th November across Western Australia.
Remove Hazards is one part of the Move Improve Remove messaging used to encourage older adults to stay active and independent.
The Remove Hazards campaign focuses on the importance of home safety, eye health, foot health, and wearing safe footwear to prevent falls and support healthy ageing.
The campaign is aimed at older adults living independently in the community.
- Removing trip hazards makes your home safer.
- Good vision helps you avoid hazards and maintain balance.
- Taking care of your feet and wearing safe footwear helps you stay active and mobile.
- Falls are preventable.
- Use the Stay On Your Feet® Home Safety Guide to help find and remove hazards.
- Have your eyes checked by an optometrist every year, or if your vision changes.
- Use the Stay On Your Feet® Healthy Foot Guide to look after your feet and see a podiatrist if you notice any changes.
- Use the Stay On Your Feet® Shoe Safety Checklist to help choose safe footwear that fits well.
- Contact Stay On Your Feet® for a free Remove Hazards information pack with tips and tools to prevent falls.
- Tell a doctor or Aboriginal Health Worker if you have a fall.
Key findings from 2026 WA Falls Report
What is the Remove Hazards Toolkit?
The Remove Hazards Toolkit has everything you need to get involved and help raise awareness of falls prevention strategies among older adults in the community. Share the Remove Hazards key messages and calls to action with ready-made social, digital, and print media materials and more!
Toolkit Contents
Scroll down the page to explore the Toolkit, or click on a heading to take you straight there.
Share the campaign
Start a conversation through your social media channels. Share the Remove Hazards Toolkit and materials with your networks colleagues, and older adults in the community. You can tag us using the handles below and include the hashtags #RemoveHazards and #FallsArePreventable.
@stayonyourfeet
@injurymatters
Campaign Materials
Here are some creative ways to share the Remove Hazards key messages and calls to action through various channels.
Click on the images to download and copy the captions to share.
Social media tiles and captions
Remove Hazards general
| Making your home safer, checking your eyesight, looking after your feet, and wearing safe footwear can help you stay active and independent. All it takes is a little every day, but it goes a long way in preventing a fall. For more information, visit stayonyourfeet.com.au. |
Make Your Home Safer
| Your home should be your safe space, but there are hazards that can increase the risk of falls. Removing trip hazards makes your home safer. Use the Stay On Your Feet® Home Safety Guide to help find and remove hazards. Remember, a little every day goes a long way in preventing a fall. For more information, visit stayonyourfeet.com.au. |
Check Your Eyesight
| Good vision helps you avoid hazards and maintain balance. Get your eyes checked by an optometrist every year, or if your vision changes. Remember, a little every day goes a long way in preventing a fall. For more information visit stayonyourfeet.com.au. |
Wear Safe Footwear
| Taking care of your feet helps you stay active and mobile. Use the Stay On Your Feet® Healthy Foot Guide to look after your feet and see a podiatrist if you notice any changes. Remember, a little every day goes a long way in preventing a fall. For more information visit www.stayonyourfeet.com.au. |
| Taking care of your feet helps you stay active and mobile. Use the Stay On Your Feet® Shoe Safety Checklist to help choose safe footwear that fits well. Remember, a little every day goes a long way in preventing a fall. For more information visit www.stayonyourfeet.com.au. |
Banners for newsletters, websites, newsletters and digital screens
Facebook banners 828 x 315
Website headers 1500 x 500
Newsletter inserts 900 x 360
Digital screens 1920 x 1080
eSignatures
Event flyer/poster template
Resources
Stay On Your Feet® provide free resources for older adults. These resources can also support health and community workers when providing falls prevention education to older adults in the community. Resources are available to download or free to order in Western Australia.
Click on ‘order’ to order resources for free, or to click on the image to download.
Videos
Share Stay On Your Feet® videos with community members or clients. Showcase the videos in your waiting room, library, community centre, or share them on social media.
Engaging with the media
Use the quotes below to engage with the media and raise awareness of Remove Hazards key messages and calls to action. The quotes can support your communications, promote your falls prevention activities in your local media or advocate for falls prevention and healthy ageing initiatives in your community.
Quotes attributed to Rachel Meade, General Manager for Injury Prevention at Injury Matters.
- 1 in 3 people over the age of 65 have a fall each year, with some resulting in serious injury and hospitalisation, but falls are preventable – they don’t just happen.
- By removing hazards, you can reduce your risk of having a fall.
- The Remove Hazards campaign encourages older adults to make their homes safer, wear supportive footwear, and have their eyesight checked regularly to stay healthy and independent.
- Visit www.stayonyourfeet.com.au or call 1300 30 35 40 for a free Remove Hazards information pack with tips and tools to prevent falls.
- Over half of all falls resulting in a hospital visit occur at home or in aged care facilities.
- The most common areas include outdoor areas, like gardens or courtyards, the bathroom, and the bedroom.
- Falls hazards can be found inside and outside of your home. When these hazards combine with other factors such as poor vision, weak bones, unsafe footwear, or medication side effects, the risk of having a fall increases.
- Simple changes such as replacing torn carpets, removing mats, clearing walkways, and making sure your home and garden is well lit, can prevent a fall.
- Use the Stay On Your Feet® Home Safety Guide to help find and remove hazards.
- Good vision helps you avoid hazards and maintain balance.
- Over time, changes in our eyesight and common, age-related eye conditions can increase the risk of falls.
- Be aware of your eyesight and pay attention to any changes, like clouding, sensitivity to light, dry or watery eyes, or floating dots appearing in your vision.
- Bumping into furniture, lowered hand-eye coordination, like missing a cup when pouring a drink, or a experiencing a fall may also indicate that you need to have your eyes checked.
- Prevent a fall by keeping your glasses clean, and take your time when adjusting to new lenses. Never wear anyone else’s glasses.
- Have your eyes checked by an optometrist every year, or if your vision changes.
- Taking care of your feet and wearing safe footwear helps you stay active and mobile.
- Between 20% and 45% of older adults experience problems with their feet.
- Shoes can affect your posture, stability, balance, safety and how you walk. Foot pain or problems can also cause difficulties with simple things like walking, housework or shopping.
- Over time, poor footwear and foot problems can reduce mobility leading to a loss of independence.
- Use the Stay On Your Feet® Healthy Foot Guide to look after your feet and see a podiatrist if you notice any changes.
- Use the Stay On Your Feet® Shoe Safety Checklist to help choose safe footwear that fits well.
- If you notice any changes or have any concerns about your feet, you should see a podiatrist to assess your need for better footwear, treatment, or exercises.
Attend webinars and promote community events
Stay On Your Feet® provides training, webinars, and networking events to increase the capacity of the falls prevention workforce. Keep an eye on our events page for training and webinar sessions throughout the campaign period.
You can also encourage older adults to attend local community health events, where they can chat with the Injury Matters team about Stay On Your Feet® and falls prevention. You can find these on the upcoming events calendar below.
Book an On-Demand Training
Injury Matters offers a range of Stay On Your Feet® presentations and training to community, health, fitness, or allied health professionals working with older adults that our trained staff will come out and deliver at your workplace.
Applying the Otago Falls Prevention Program in Practice
The Applying the Otago Falls Prevention Program in Practice training is a half-day workshop for exercise-based falls prevention, based on the international Otago Exercise Program principles.
Active Balance for Falls Prevention
A half-day workshop on the principles of exercise-based falls prevention. Explore the knowledge and skills required for health and fitness professionals to incorporate balance and strength falls prevention interventions into practice.
Implementing the Lifestyle Integrated Functional Exercise (LIFE) Program to help prevent falls
A half-day workshop for health professionals to reduce the risk of falls and improve capacity for functional everyday activity, based on the LiFE program principles.
Falls Prevention training for Support Workers
An introductory workshop for falls prevention and explores the knowledge and skills required to identify potential risks of falls in older adult clients and report falls risk following organisational procedures.
Online learning for health and community workers
Injury Matters has free online learning modules to support community, health, fitness, or allied health professionals to deliver falls prevention strategies with older adults living in the community.
You can complete the Stay On Your Feet® eLearning modules in your own time and at your own pace, or get your team together for a group learning session!
Online learning for older adults
Spot The Hazard online game
This game tests home safety knowledge in a fun way. Walk through each room and see if you can spot all of the hazards.
Remove Hazards eLearning module
The Improve Your Health eLearning module for older adults helps improve awareness and knowledge of healthy ageing and falls prevention strategies.
Home Safety Quiz
Encourage older adults to do the Home Safety Quiz and use an action plan to list any changes that can be made to make their home safer.
Book a peer education session for your community
Injury Matters offers free presentations for community groups. Delivered by peer educators who are trained to deliver falls prevention messaging using adult learning techniques to engage older adults, these 45-minute-1 hour long presentations take the participants through simple steps that they can use to prevent slips, trips, and falls.
Organising a community event?
Peer educators and Injury Matters staff are available to attend community events such as expos, fairs, and open days. With enough notice and availability, we can deliver short presentations and host display tables across Perth and in regional locations. We can also promote your upcoming events on our website, eNews, and social media.
Reach out to the team and tell us about your healthy ageing events!
Call 1300 30 35 40
Email [email protected]
How to stay connected
eDirectory
Feel confident to refer older adults to other health professionals. You can also refer them to community organisations for specific information and suitable programs.
Falls Prevention eNews
Stay up to date with falls prevention activities around the state, new resources, events, trainings and opportunities every month.
Community Falls Network
The Community Falls Network brings together a variety of
health and community professionals to discuss key issues and share solutions in community falls prevention. The Network meet quarterly via video conference and in person.
Stay On Your Feet® news articles
- 2026 Western Australian Falls ReportAccess the latest WA Falls Report today to learn about the burden of falls on the WA community.
- Injury Matters secures ongoing Department of Health WA fundingInjury Matters to continue the delivery of the Stay On Your Feet® and Know Injury programs.
- Stay On Your Feet® Program: 2025-26 at a glance!It’s been a busy year for Injury Matters, delivering the Stay On Your Feet® program through a variety of falls prevention activities across Western Australia (WA). Funded by the Department of Health WA, Injury Matters provided Stay On Your Feet® community…
- Step-by-step videos on how to get up off the floor safelyKnowing how to get up safely after a fall can help you feel more confident in your home and maintain your independence.
- Meet the 2026 Remove Hazards grant recipientsWith the next Stay On Your Feet® Remove Hazards campaign launching in September, Injury Matters congratulates the successful grant recipients who have commenced planning their community-based falls prevention grant programs.
