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.
THE Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has continued the fight to increase the duty of care imposed on employers in the harmonised national occupational health and safety laws.
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.
THE Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) says it has organised the largest asbestos survey and research program to be undertaken at a single work site in Australia.
ACCORDING to the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), recent legislative amendments by the Queensland Parliament will allow its Organisers to enter workplaces on health and safety grounds.
THE Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) claims 1.5 million Australians may be exposed to occupational carcinogens.
WORKSAFE has issued two prohibition notices against a pipeline-laying project in Victoria after construction workers were exposed to asbestos.
THE Victorian branch of the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) has set up self-regulatory codes of conduct for truck drivers to encourage them to avoid drugs, drive safely and raise fatigue awareness.
THE Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has warned Australia’s coal mining industry against complacency when dealing with work safety.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has called for urgent action to prevent workplace deaths.