The region's Safe Work Assistant State Inspector is part of a new safety blitz to keep the state's tradies and construction workers safe from potentially deadly falling accidents.

A majority of people and businesses do the right thing, but a minority need not only education but enforcement, Mr Chillingworth said.

"The statewide blitz is about getting people home safely," he said.

"The concept behind the whole program is 'you fall, they fall'. A serious incident affects not only yourself but your family as well."

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Tamworth MP Kevin Anderson, who is also the Minister for Safe Work, said inspectors will be visiting sites across both Sydney and throughout regional NSW in order to promote safe practices on building sites.

It's not the multi-million dollar skyscraper projects in Sydney, it's the two-storey home builds in rural NSW that are hurting and killing people, he said.

"What we're finding is that the most at-risk are those that are four metres and less off the ground," he said.

"It's rooves, it's ladders and it's scaffolds."

Last year there were 368 major claims, up 34 on the year before.

With regional NSW amid an unprecedented boom of renovations and new home construction, the government wants to keep a close eye on the sector to make sure standards remain strong.

"We see a lot of people when they get on rooves, even on a single dwelling, they'll go 'oh I'll just go and quickly fix that, I'll do it right now'. That's when accidents do occur," Mr Anderson said.

"The fact is we're coming into Christmas, people are rushing to get things done, we want to make sure that it's done safely."

Tamworth has a good record of safety, Mr Chillingworth said, but it can always improve.

"Working at heights is a big issue, still remains a big issue in NSW. These blitzes are a good thing. It lowers that incident rate across the state, so that's a good thing," he said.

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