Two companies and a director were convicted over an incident where a young worker was electrocuted by overhead powerlines on a building site, in spite of warnings from the electricity utility.

Cancer Institute NSW reports that the number of mesothelioma cases in NSW won’t peak for another 5-10 years, with the annual number of cases increasing four-fold since 1980.

Bovis Lend Lease employee, James Bodsworth recently received the OHS Excellence Award at the 2010 Safe Work ACT Awards.

South Australia’s annual Safety Awards highlighted a number of innovative approaches to workplace safety.

A Western Australian engineering firm was fined $90,000 over the injury of two workers during Cyclone George in 2007.

A South Australian construction company has been fined for its part in the collapse of heavy concrete panels at an Adelaide building site in 2007.

Using electronic work diaries to comply with fatigue management laws in Australia’s heavy vehicle industry could improve road safety, boost efficiency and reduce red tape, according to a draft policy paper released by the National Transport Commission recently.

WorkSafe Victoria held its annual WorkSafe Awards recently to recognise the state’s leaders in workplace safety.

An automotive industry body has issued a warning to motorists to switch off their mobile phones when refueling their vehicles.

A recent joint construction industry and state government initiative was held in the ACT, focused on improving safety in the residential construction sector.

WorkSafe is demanding safety improvements from the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) after a fuel tank explosion last year left a worker with serious burn injuries.

WorkSafe Victoria has announced that the organisation’s Deputy Chief Executive, Ian Forsyth, will assume responsibility for leading WorkSafe’s health and safety operations.

Research published earlier this year has shown an increase in cases of serious injury and death caused by swallowing of lithium button cells.

The SA Industrial Court has heard that a simple interlock device could have prevented an incident which cost an experienced baker her livelihood.

A brickworks and its operators have been jointly fined more than $50,000 by the SA Industrial Court for a series of breaches of workplace safety laws, found to have arisen from an incident in which an employee was trapped by a conveyor belt.