Colac-based AKD Softwoods, which has received more than 100 safety improvement notices over less than a decade, has been convicted and fined $70,000 for failing to comply with a safety improvement notice and having an unguarded machine which injured a worker.

A free WorkSafe workshop to help employers understand the benefits of an early and sustainable return to work for injured workers is being held next Tuesday at Dandenong.  

An ignition of gas and a subsequent fire in the longwall goaf of an underground coal mine resulted in the evacuation of the underground workforce. An investigation into the cause of the ignition and the emergency response is continuing.

A Geelong-based manufacturer of prefabricated house frames has pleaded guilty to three charges of failing to provide a safe workplace and failing to provide training and supervision to employees.

Centennial Park, in South Australia, has received the Major Metropolitan Award for Best Practice in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) in the Local Government Association Workers Compensation Scheme 2011 OHS and RTW Awards.

Last week, Minister for Industrial Relations Russell Wortley announced the winners for Safe Work Awards 2011.

A heavy engineering company has been convicted and fined more than $26,000 following an incident in which a worker was overcome by fumes while working in a confined space.

During this week’s Safe Work Week, Baulderstone reflects on a year of successful safety initiatives that has brought a number of achievements.

Unsafe storage has resulted in an industry-wide warning from WorkSafe after dairy products manufacturer Fonterra Australia was convicted and fined $300,000 in the Melbourne County Court.

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.