THE HEADS of Workplace Safety Authorities (HWSA) is mounting a national campaign to improve scaffolding safety in the construction industry.
21/07/2009
ALLSCAFF Systems, its company director, Karimbla Construction Services and Pryme Constructions are being charged with safety breaches for a fatal scaffolding accident.
09/06/2009
THE HEADS of Workplace Safety Authorities (HWSA) is implementing a safety campaign for scaffolding in the construction industry.
07/07/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Government will implement recommendations made by an independent reference group to help improve the safety of swing stage scaffolding.
29/09/2008
TWO Gold Coast construction workers plunged to their deaths on 22 June 2008 when the scaffolding they were on collapsed.
24/06/2008
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
INDUSTRIAL Relations Minister Cameron Dick has launched new safety standards for suspended swing-stage scaffolding on high-rise buildings in Queensland.
07/07/2009
THE OFFICE of Regulatory Services says the ACT will be participating in a major national safety awareness campaign aimed at reducing the risks of working with scaffolding equipment.
27/11/2009
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
WORKPLACE Health and Safety Queensland’s Swingstage Scaffold Reference Group will appoint an independent engineer to develop safety recommendations.
14/07/2008
CONSTRUCTION company Briklay has been fined $14,000 for not providing edge protection on one of its building sites.
07/05/2008
WORKSAFE WA is investigating the falling death of a 29-year-old construction worker at a work site in west Perth on 11 November 2008.
12/11/2008
PART of a floor of a building under construction in Canberra collapsed during a concrete pour on 27 October 2008, sending equipment and scaffolding crashing downwards.
28/10/2008
THE AWU and politicians are calling for BHP’s Western Australian operations to be shut down, after a scaffolding contractor died on 18 March 2009 at its Mt Whaleback mine.
23/03/2009
SAFEWORK SA says it is providing information sessions on updates to the national licensing system for operators of high risk plant.
23/10/2009
BRISBANE’s central business district was the scene of a partial crane collapse in the early hours of 15 April 2008.
15/04/2008
SAFEWORK SA has started an investigation into an incident at Brompton on the morning of 8 September 2008, in which a male employee was injured during a loading operation.
09/09/2008
WORKPLACE safety agency Comcare is prosecuting construction company John Holland in the Brisbane Federal Court over a 2008 death of a worker.
05/02/2009
THE NATIONAL Training Information Services (NTIS) has posted up the CPC08 Construction, Plumbing and Services Integrated Framework Training Package.
12/03/2009
MARTON Nominees and its director and company secretary William Nash have been fined after a disastrous attempted concrete pour.
14/09/2009