Designing or modifying buildings and communities to facilitate physical activity must include strategies to maximise safety. The ‘Active Design Supplement: Promoting Safety’ report provides explicit guidelines for urban planners, architects, public health advocates and others to consider when promoting active designs. [ + ]

Master Electricians Australia (MEA) has urged Sydney contractors and tradies to remain diligent with electrical safety precautions following two separate incidents late last week where one man received burns to 90% of his body and another man died. [ + ]

Optimum Handling Solutions provided a number of custom 300 kg lift and tilt work platforms for national power board manufacturing company at its facility in Sydney. [ + ]

An Enerpac gantry lifting system was deployed by Tutt Bryant Heavy Lift & Shift to deliver generators to a power station in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. [ + ]

In the early days of the industrial revolution, labour was cheap and there was little regard for pain and suffering of injured workers. In more recent times, we have evolved through changes in social attitudes, placing more value on people who work with machines. These changes ensure that we continue to develop safeguarding measures for existing and new machinery. The challenge is to continue to improve the existing safety of machinery and also, as we make advances in technology, any new hazards need to be managed in a way that aligns with what is expected from the modern-day employer. [ + ]

Same-level workplace falls have accounted for nearly 20% of all recorded injuries in NSW workplaces. WorkCover NSW has provided ways to reduce these falls. [ + ]

One of the key trends around behavioural safety across many industries, at the moment, is the recognition that leaders need to lead. Not a novel concept, but for many organisations the major challenge has been on ‘how’ to do this. The term ‘safety leadership behaviour framework’ is quickly becoming part of the spoken culture in many organisations to describe the creation and implementation of the developed leadership behaviours. [ + ]

Fire protection specialist Wormald is now offering a fire safety officer training program for NSW healthcare organisations to help them meet their training obligations. [ + ]

It has been shown that hearing protectors can provide a suitable level of protection to workers exposed to noise. However, to get appropriate performance from these devices, there are several elements that need to be addressed. [ + ]

Is your PPE providing the right protection and performance? An assessment of personal protection equipment on mining sites may positively impact businesses’ bottom line and improve worker confidence. [ + ]

The new WHS legislation has added to the confusion surrounding testing and tagging - one of the key elements of electrical safety. In this article, Sarah Allen of Appliance Tagging Services explains the revised testing and tagging requirements across Australia. [ + ]

940 men and women, who have been seriously injured at work, will receive increased weekly benefits from WorkCover. [ + ]

Antioxidants, dietary supplements and high-tech brain imaging are among some of the novel strategies that may help detect, treat and even prevent noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus among American troops, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit. [ + ]

Tecpro Australia was able to reduce the dust caused by the coal dropping into the crusher at Centennial Coal’s Mandalong Mine using its dust suppression system. [ + ]

Australian and New Zealand laws emphasise the importance of risk elimination and minimisation by design in the hierarchy of controls. A carefully thought through design can help businesses and professionals minimise the risk and the dependence on human behaviour. Read on to find out how. [ + ]