THE AUSTRALIAN Trucking Association (ATA) is calling for more action on rest areas to boost safety and productivity on Australian roads.
THE AUSTRALIAN Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has called for the national work safety laws to have tougher penalties, so as to deter potential breaches.
A CRANE operator has been fatally crushed between two trucks in Northcote, northern Melbourne.
JULIA Gillard introduced legislation into the Federal Parliament on 4 September 2008, which will establish the Safe Work Australia authority.
THE AUSTRALIAN Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has blasted what it says is Australia’s poor record on workplace death and injury, pushing for a stricter duty of care to be imposed on employers.
NORTHERN Territory WorkSafe say they are investigating an incident where a concrete slab fell about 10 storeys off a construction site in Darwin on 14 July 2008.
THE COMMONWEALTH, state and territory governments have formalised their cooperation during a Workplace Relations Ministers’ Council (WRMC) meeting in Brisbane at the end of May 2008.
THE Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC) has congratulated WorkSafe Victoria for its role in creating a nationally consistent approach to construction induction.
FOUR new mines inspectors have been assigned to central and northern Queensland to further improve health and safety performance in the mining industry.
IN December 2007 the Northern Territory’s Legislative Assembly passed legislation creating the Workplace Health and Safety Act and the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act.