A SOUTH Australian mining company has been fined $65,000 following the death of a worker at the Port Pirie smelter in 2004.
SAFEWORK SA is warning employers to follow guidelines and laws to safely remove asbestos after a company was penalised for breaching workplace safety regulations.
NEW Queensland laws have been introduced which will enhance the powers of workplace safety representatives.
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 SOUTH Australian Supreme Court has dismissed a joint appeal lodged by Santos and Diemould Tooling Services, in a court victory touted by SafeWork SA as a major clear-up of legislative technicality.
PENRICE Soda has been fined a total of $47,000 for an ammonia leak and a pressure vessel explosion in 2005.
AMCOR Packaging has been fined $25,000 plus costs of nearly $6500 for an incident in which a worker’s hand was crushed and burned after being caught in a machine.
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.
ACCORDING to divers employed by Construction Diving Services, NSW’s desalination plant construction site has multiple safety breaches.
SOUTH Australia has introduced tougher penalties for workplace safety breaches with the 2007 amendment of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.