Inspectors from WorkCover NSW and the Victorian WorkCover Authority will visit construction sites in Mildura and Wentworth this week to raise awareness of the similarities between each state's safety laws and the ease of working across the border. [ + ]

WorkCover NSW and the University of Wollongong (UOW) have reinforced their commitment to the safety of the university's workers and students through the renewal of their safety alliance. [ + ]

Researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) claim more research needs to be done into the role organisations play in workplace harassment. [ + ]

The World Steel Association (worldsteel) will, this year, hold its first Steel Safety Day. The safety awareness day is aligned with World Safety Day, held by the International Labour Organisation on 28 April. [ + ]

Robotics researchers at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) have developed step-climbing technology which allows motorised wheelchair users to easily get up and down road kerbs and single steps. [ + ]

The second international conference on Occupational Safety in Transport (OSIT 2014) will be held at the Crowne Plaza Surfers Paradise from 18-19 September 2014. [ + ]

Researchers have found that firefighters who died of heart attacks and other vascular problems such as stroke while on the job were most often doing vigorous physical activity right before the attack. [ + ]

To help people avoid noise-induced hearing loss, 3M has launched a social campaign called the 'Hearing Pledge', which aims to educate people on how to detect and help protect them from hazardous noise. [ + ]

WorkCover NSW has confirmed it will be thoroughtly investigating the collapse of scaffolding at a Mascot construction site. [ + ]

"With the next quarterly BAS due on 28 February, Australian businesses need to plan for timely and accurate lodgment, even if there is nothing to report or the business may not be able to pay straight away," Deputy Commissioner Steve Vesperman said today. [ + ]

It's time to make the trucking industry a healthy industry of choice, as Linfox safety specialist Andrew Niven shares his strategies for improving industry health and wellbeing at Trucking Australia 2014. [ + ]

A one-day Construction Industry Inaugural Mental Health Conference (20 February, Brisbane) will address the question of whether suicide is a workplace health and safety issue and promote collaboration around mental health, wellbeing and suicide prevention across the industry and between companies. [ + ]

As fires in the Hazelwood open cut coalmine continue to affect air quality in the Latrobe Valley of eastern Victoria, the Victorian WorkCover Authority is advising workplaces in the region to take steps to reduce the impact of bushfire and coal fire smoke on their staff. [ + ]

Australia's new automation, control and instrumentation conference - ACI Connect - will feature two half-day 'Safety of Machinery' workshops from industrial safety specialist Frank Schrever and a case study presentation titled 'Functional Safety - who is safe?'. [ + ]

WorkCover NSW has launched a project to improve safety in the state's house construction industry after more than 150 workers were seriously injured or killed on the job in the last two years. [ + ]