NT WorkSafe are running a campaign for forklift safety during May 2006 involving maintenance records and forklift licensing to encourage industry to comply with Work Health legislation. [ + ]

The ACTU has called on the Howard Government to retract the sections of its Industrial Relations laws which ban workplace agreements from giving workers leave to attend union-provided Health and Safety training or meetings. [ + ]

ACT WorkCover inspectors will visit hundreds of small businesses across the ACT as part of a major audit of compliance with workplace legislation. [ + ]

Over three days from May 16 - 18 in Melbourne, Safety In Action and Materials & Manual Handling will have plenty for the expected 10,000 trade visitors to do and see. [ + ]

WorkCover inspected 33 cafes and restaurants in the ACT earlier this year revealing several common safety issues and a lack of compliance with elements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1989 and the Dangerous Substance Act 2004. [ + ]

‘Green cards’ can now be used until 1st September 2006 as proof of induction training in the building industry. [ + ]

The Australian Safety and Compensation (ASCC) met in Hobart in April 2006 to discuss ways to prevent workplace death, injury and disease; to improve workers’ compensation arrangements, and the rehabilitation and return to work of injured employees. [ + ]

Although it is recognised by organisations such as WorkCover NSW, that manual handling injuries are a major cause of lost time for workers in NSW, solutions can sometimes be hard to find. [ + ]

An earthquake strikes a large city, wrecking roads and bridges, stranding rush-hour commuters, trapping office workers inside high-rise buildings. [ + ]

In a move that has sparked outrage from workers’ unions around the globe, the Mexican government has replaced the national miners’ union leader and frozen the union’s assets. [ + ]

ACT WorkCover has completed its safety focus campaign targeting electrical safety. The campaign began in January in response to a spate of injury reports received by ACT WorkCover involving electrical shock incidents. [ + ]

In an interesting twist on the standard workers compensation cases that hit the airwaves, a Sydney woman has been convicted of fraud, and ordered to repay $37,818 for a fraudulent workers compensation claim. [ + ]

WorkCover NSW is running a series of farm safety field days across the state, NSW Minister for Commerce, John Della Bosca announced recently. [ + ]

A revised and updated guideline on accident and incident reporting has been released by the Resources Safety Division at the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP) in Western Australia. [ + ]

A Western Australian engineering company has been fined $40,000 for failing to provide a safe workplace after a 17-year-old employee seriously injured his hand. [ + ]