The compensated injury fatalities figure is at its lowest level since the start of the National OHS Strategy 2002-2012 and it is expected that the target of a 20% reduction by 2012 will be achieved, says Safe Work Australia Chair Tom Phillips AM.

Shift work in teens linked to increased multiple sclerosis risk, according to a study by researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

A recent study by CARRS-Q has found that young drivers who experience anxiety and depression are more likely to take risks on the road.

WorkCover NSW's new online tool is aimed to help businesses estimate their annual workers compensation costs.

A drilling rig supervisor who told an inexperienced 21-year-old man to drive a truck with defective brakes and no seatbelt down a steep slope before the vehicle crashed, killing the driver, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison and suspended for three years.

The renewed partnership deal would involve WorkCover and the MBA working together to ensure new national work health and safety laws which come into effect from 1 January 2011 are implemented effectively throughout the construction industry.

Dusan Milosevic, who arrived in Australia from Serbia in 1996, provided a false Bachelor Degree and a Masters Degree to the Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria for registration as a psychologist in 1998.

WorkSafe Victoria has announced the finalists for the 23rd Annual WorkSafe Victoria Awards. Winners from each category will be announced on Wednesday 19 October.

A Safety Institute of Australia initiative - 30 Days of OHS - was launched 10 October, promoting free health and safety industry insights and knowledge sharing amongst peers and establishing a foundation for continued online networking and idea generation.

The Victorian Government has called for a delay to national Occupational Health and Safety harmonisation.

WorkCover NSW and sawmilling company Tasco have signed an alliance to enhance the safety of Tasco staff.

Free workshops and seminars in tandem with The Safety Show Sydney on 25-27 October will provide visitors an opportunity to learn all about the new workplace safety setting and its impacts.

WorkSafe prosecutor Patrick McQuillan told the court workplaces were not playgrounds, forklifts were not toys and that over the past five years, 7000 Victorian workplace injuries caused by falls from height had cost $200 million in treatment and rehabilitation costs.

The OHS reforms will deliver up to $2bn a year in productivity gains, Minister for Workplace Relations, Senator Chris Evans said.

In its latest review of the Minimum Standard for Remuneration, the Industrial Relations Commission of South Australia supported the state government’s submission to provide a 3.4% pay rise to our lowest paid workers.