SAFE Work Australia has released the new national Noise Exposure and the Provision of Noise Control Measures in Australian Workplaces report.
09/02/2010
WORKSAFE Victoria has issued a guidance for employers on managing the occupational health and safety risks associated with the influenza and possible swine flu pandemic.
06/05/2009
WORKCOVER NSW has reminded operators of earthmoving equipment to follow adequate safety precautions when working near excavation sites, after a labourer was hurt by a skid steer excavator.
19/06/2008
WORKSAFE Victoria has applied new penalty options to a Geelong-based company, resulting in the offender placing a newspaper advertisement about what it did wrong.
17/03/2008
HWL Ebsworth Lawyers is holding a workshop to teach participants how to develop an effective safety management system.
04/03/2009
WORKSAFE WA will launch a targeted inspection campaign on dusts, fumes and fibres in workplaces in April.
25/03/2009
COMCARE has issued a safety alert to all Australian companies regarding the Swine Influenza A (H1N1) strain.
30/04/2009
KONEKT says the use of risk assessments can help in avoiding injuries from manual handling.
08/10/2009
ADELAIDE’S Big Day Out, a popular music event, has won the Best Public Event for Safety at the 2009 SA Safe Work Awards.
03/11/2009
THE ORGANISERS of the Dust Explosions 2009 conference say the event will provide attendees with practical advice on how to safeguard production plants and workforces.
13/05/2009
WORKCOVER NSW has reminded the construction industry to ensure adequate risk assessment and safety control measures are in place when working with suspended scaffolding.
12/03/2009
WORKSAFE WA will begin a three-month targeted inspection campaign on slips, trips and falls in September 2009.
09/09/2009
QUEENSLAND Industrial Relations Minister Cameron Dick says a taskforce will be established to investigate traffic controller safety and conditions.
20/07/2009
QUEENSLAND’s Mines Inspectorate from the Department of Mines and Energy has released a guidance note for radiation protection from naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) during exploration.
22/04/2008
BUILDER Svein Tobiassen has been fined $35,000 for the death of a worker, after WorkSafe WA successfully appealed against an earlier dismissal of the court case.
20/05/2008
OFFICE of Regulatory Services (ORS) WorkCover ACT says it is continuing to investigate a 9 April 2009 incident where asbestos was detected in air conditioning ducts during building works at a suburban shopping centre.
10/06/2009
THE Occupational Health and Safety (General) Regulation 2007 will come into force in the ACT on 26 May 2008.
13/05/2008
WORKCOVER NSW has responded to the scaffold collapse fatalities of two workers by reminding the construction industry to follow safety precautions when working with scaffolding.
27/06/2008
THE Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC) has launched the National Hazard Exposure Worker Surveillance (NHEWS) handbook, and released results for the 2008 NHEWS survey.
04/12/2008
NOPSA says it has moved to safeguard the health and safety of workers repairing the leaking well on the Montara Well Head Platform.
26/08/2009