CSIRO Minerals researchers have developed floating barriers for gold leach tanks that reduces potentially harmful hydrogen cyanide gas levels in the work area.
06/06/2008
SAFETY expert Emeritus Professor Rod Troutbeck was awarded the Engineers Australia NCTR Transport Medal for his role in enhancing the safety of the transport industry.
17/09/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC) will research the workplace management of in-situ asbestos.
11/08/2008
A Queensland mine has prevented a possibly fatal collision on its haul road because of a hard safety control it implemented.
21/04/2008
A Mildura food company has pleaded guilty in a Victoria County Court to workplace safety offences after an employee died in a forklift accident.
20/02/2008
ANGLO Coal has been fined $200,000 after a contractor suffered an electrical shock at its Dartbrook mine in 2005.
30/09/2008
SAFEWORK SA is investigating an incident in Pirie Street, Adelaide, on 16 March 2009, after equipment fell 13 storeys down a building.
18/03/2009
SAFEWORK SA says two companies have been fined about $30,000 each by an industrial magistrate over failures in their safety systems which resulted in injuries to workers.
17/11/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Mines Inspectorate has released a safety bulletin warning of the potential for diesel engine turbochargers to ignite fires at surface coal operations.
03/07/2008
THE ACTU says recent statistics which show a rise in 2008-09 work-related deaths means the new national workplace health and safety laws need to focus on the welfare of employees.
15/12/2009
ACCORDING to WorkSafe WA, its targeted inspection program of construction sites in the Peel region has revealed some areas of concern, but also some good standards of compliance.
23/04/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Department of Mines and Energy has issued a safety alert on vehicle collisions on mine sites.
28/08/2009
WORKSAFE Victoria says the road freight transport industry will help it develop a strategy and action plan to improve the workplace health and safety in the sector.
24/03/2009
LOBETHAL Abattoirs has been convicted and fined $22,000 after a slaughterman’s hand was severely injured by a mechanical hock cutter.
06/07/2009
WORKSAFE Victoria has released a safety solution for workers who conduct abrasive blasting of large lead-painted surfaces.
25/08/2009
A CONSTRUCTION company has been fined $15,000 for failing to adequately cover an opening after a worker fell more than three metres through a gap in a third storey floor.
11/01/2010
WORKPLACE Standards Tasmania has issued a safety alert regarding the use of work boxes on industrial forklift trucks.
21/10/2009
CHRIS Parker says the days after drug intoxication can be more hazardous than the actual period of intoxication.
03/06/2009
WORKCOVER NSW has published a safety alert after two plumbing apprentices were seriously injured in March 2009 while purging a natural gas supply line.
08/10/2009
TOLL Transport has been fined $220,000 over a fatality on 24 November 2004 when a driver was run over by a prime mover at a truck depot.
22/05/2009