A RETAILER in the ACT has been fined $6250 for continuing to trade and employing persons after their workers compensation policy expired.
03/03/2009
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
VISITORS to The Safety Show Sydney will hear about how safety in NSW will change when the state’s OHS law follows the new national Model Act.
01/09/2009
Workplace safety authorities across Australia have launched a national safety campaign in a bid to improve machine guarding in the manufacturing industry.
05/03/2008
ACT Attorney General, Simon Corbell MLA, has launched a new suite of material from the Work Safety Commissioner focusing on workplace bullying.
19/02/2010
WORKCOVER WA says pleural plaques is now considered a specified occupational disease under the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981.
14/10/2009
A RECYCLING company has been fined $140,000 in the NSW Industrial Court after a boundary wall collapsed into a car park at Taren Point in South Sydney.
01/12/2008
ANOTHER round of changes to the South Australian Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Scheme was been started on 1 April 2009.
03/04/2009
WORKCOVER ACT has issued a hazard alert in response to an incident on 13 January 2009 when a worker was killed while unfolding a vehicle loading crane.
11/02/2009
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 WA Commerce Minister Troy Buswell says the state’s workers’ compensation legislation will be overhauled.
30/03/2009
AN air conditioning company has been fined $120,000 after an explosion and fire in a vehicle containing bottles of flammable gas in suburban Sydney.
30/04/2008
OHS law experts are divided about the benefits of the new national occupational health and safety laws, the biggest reform of OHS law in 30 years.
18/09/2009
WORKCOVER WA is hosting an information session on 26 February 2010, which will explain the authority’s role in the workers’ compensation and injury management system.
03/02/2010
THE NSW Industrial Court has convicted and fined both an employer and a labour hire company for failing to ensure proper training and workplace safety for a contractor.
15/02/2008
THE HEAD contractor and subcontractor at Rhodes Corporate Park construction site have been fined a total of $343,500 for an incident where a 19 year old fell 15m on the site.
05/01/2009
VISY Paper has been fined $140,000 after a boundary wall collapsed in a car park in south Sydney, narrowly missing a woman and her son.
19/11/2008
IFAP has launched a range of training courses on Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management.
06/04/2009
WORKCOVER NSW says the current seven workers compensation scheme agents will continue operating in the WorkCover Scheme for the next five years.
27/08/2009
WORKCOVER SA says second round expressions of interest for its $15m Return to Work Fund are now open.
16/11/2009