WORKSAFE Victoria has released information about the most common injuries and hazards for young workers in the manufacturing industry.
WORKSAFE Victoria has announced its safety campaign plans for the next 12 months, with particular focus on eight metropolitan and eight provincial areas to be targeted for inspection.
WORKSAFE Victoria will go on their annual roadshow to metropolitan and regional centres, and has invited employers and workers to attend the community briefings in late May and June.
EXHAUST Air Recycling System (EARS) Australia, a 2007 WorkSafe Award winner, has been recognised in the Safe Work Australia Awards as having the best solution to an identified workplace health and safety issue.
WORKSAFE Victoria will be conducting a free safety skin check at the Melville Oval grandstand at Hamilton on 3 April 2008, in an effort to target the health of outdoor workers in Western Victoria.
WORKSAFE Victoria is holding a workshop in Ballarat on 1 April 2008 to highlight the dangers of failing to properly guard machines during maintenance work.
WORKSAFE Victoria is investigating possible breaches of a health and safety law after three officials were prevented from boarding an oil rig in Portland last week.
WORKSAFE Western Australia is investigating the death of a 37-year-old man at a factory in the Wheatbelt town of Moora yesterday afternoon.
SOUTH Gippsland company We Fix M will stand trial in the County Court on workplace health and safety charges. The company is charged with not providing and maintaining a safe work environment.
A 35-year-old woman was crushed when a bundled pack of timber weighing about two tonnes fell on her at the Carter Holt Harvey mill at Morwell.