Industry News
2012 National Forklift Safety Week to be held in June
The President of the Australian Industrial Truck Association (AITA), Steve Stewart, has announced that the forklift industry body will sponsor its second annual National Forklift Safety Week from 4-8 June 2012. [ + ]
High-noise communication devices win prestigious award
A project developed at The University of Western Australia has won spin-out company Sensear the prestigious Frost & Sullivan 2012 Product Differentiation Excellence Award for its ‘high-noise communication’ devices, including earplugs and earmuffs for industrial settings. [ + ]
WorkSafe Victoria kicks off inspector recruitment campaign
WorkSafe Victoria has kicked off its inspector recruitment campaign and is encouraging those who want to help keep Victoria the safest place to work in Australia to apply. Roles are available across Melbourne and regional Victoria and applications close 15 April at 5 pm. [ + ]
Forum helps young people explore workplace safety
Keeping young people safe from workplace injuries was the focus of a WorkCover NSW sponsored forum held at Parliament House today. [ + ]
Academics to research unpaid work practices
The Fair Work Ombudsman is teaming with two leading academics to identify opportunities for increasing public awareness about laws relating to unpaid work. [ + ]
Company fined $50,000 over electric shock incident
Mulgrave sign installation company Southern Ultimate Sign Installations (Southern USI) has been convicted and fined $50,000, and ordered to pay almost $6000 in legal costs, over an incident that left a worker with severe burns to his body after he suffered an electric shock. [ + ]
Ai Group lodges appeal against Workpac decision - meaning of ‘service’ under the Fair Work Act
The Australian Industry Group has filed an appeal against the decision of Commissioner McDonald of Fair Work Australia in the case Bambach v WorkPac. The appeal concerns the meaning of ‘service’ and ‘continuous service’ under the Fair Work Act. [ + ]
Farm safety under microscope after woman run over by truck
Farm safety has been put in the spotlight following the conviction and $80,000 fine of Werribee vegetable grower J & K Zausa after a woman was run over by a truck reversing from a machinery shed. [ + ]
Incidents and prosecutions show construction sector can do better
Heavy fines have been imposed in a series of WorkSafe prosecutions after serious incidents for construction industry safety failings. [ + ]
Public comment period for Work Health and Safety Codes of Practice closes 22 June
Interested Australians are encouraged to have their say on five new work health and safety model Codes of Practice that have been released for a 12-week public comment period. [ + ]
Workplace fatality fine nearly doubled after appeal
Forestry company Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia, now part of BSG Holdings, had its fine for workplace safety breaches nearly doubled on appeal in the County Court recently. [ + ]
Truck company owner fined $13,000 over sham contracting, underpayment
The owner-operator of a Sydney truck company has been fined $13,024 for sham contracting activity and underpaying an employee, following a prosecution by the Fair Work Ombudsman. [ + ]
Have your say on work health and safety for the next decade
The framework for work health and safety in the nation for the next decade, the ‘Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022’, was released yesterday for an eight-week public comment period. [ + ]
Healthy Snacks Australia fined $60,000 after worker loses finger
An Australian food manufacturer has been fined $60,000 over an incident that left a worker with a severed finger after it was caught in a machine. [ + ]
Occupational skin diseases found to cost over $33 million annually
Safe Work Australia Chair, Tom Phillips AM, has announced the release of two research reports on occupational skin disease - the second most common work-related disease presented to general practitioners in Australia. [ + ]
