SAFE Work Australia says the public will be able to comment on the model occupational health and safety legislation in September 2009.
13/08/2009
THE NATIONAL Electrical and Communications Association (NECA) says it supports Safe Work Australia’s draft Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) legislation.
13/11/2009
JULIA Gillard introduced legislation into the Federal Parliament on 4 September 2008, which will establish the Safe Work Australia authority.
04/09/2008
THE WA Commerce Minister Troy Buswell says the state’s workers’ compensation legislation will be overhauled.
30/03/2009
THE ENERGY Networks Association (ENA) has made a submission to SafeWork Australia commenting on the Safe Work Act.
17/11/2009
IN December 2007 the Northern Territory’s Legislative Assembly passed legislation creating the Workplace Health and Safety Act and the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act.
17/01/2008
THE ENERGY Networks Association (ENA) says Energy Network Safety legislation should follow the example of broader occupational health and safety laws, and be applied across Australia.
07/11/2008
THE SECOND report of the National Review into model occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation is set to be released after 13 February 2009.
09/02/2009
THE QUEENSLAND State Government has introduced legislation changes to its workers’ compensation scheme.
21/05/2010
THE VICTORIAN government has tabled legislation in Parliament allowing people to seek damages for the full extent of asbestos-related diseases.
09/10/2008
INDUSTRY experts have agreed that a consistent national OHS scheme will benefit employees as well as employers, if the best of each state system is integrated into the laws.
16/02/2009
QUEENSLAND Parliament has introduced legislation aiming to make the state’s mines safer.
30/04/2008
THE OCCUPATIONAL Health and Safety Regulation 2001 is now applicable to NSW mining workplaces and coal mines, after a legislative amendment came into effect on 1 September 2008.
30/09/2008
TREOTHAM Automation says its Plant and Equipment Risk Assessment Service will help manufacturers comply with new occupational health and safety legislation.
16/11/2009
WORKCOVER SA will be slashing 10% off its payout to workers injured at work before July 2008, under state legislation.
01/10/2008
SAFEWORK SA is inviting employers, employees, contractors and the self-employed to information sessions on the proposed national workplace safety legislation.
06/10/2009
NT WORKSAFE is conducting a number of information sessions on the harmonisation of OHS laws.
12/10/2009
TASMANIA’S mine safety laws are due for an overhaul, following a damning Coroner’s report into the 2001 and 2003 deaths of three miners at the Renison Tin mine.
22/05/2008
UNIONS are pushing politicians to accept amendments to the Safe Work Bill to fast-track improvements to workplace health and safety laws.
09/12/2008
WOOLWORTHS has pleaded guilty to failing to provide an injured worker with suitable employment, in breach of Victoria’s workers compensation legislation.
25/02/2009