Industry News
WorkSafe announces new leader for health and safety in Victoria
WorkSafe Victoria has announced that the organisation’s Deputy Chief Executive, Ian Forsyth, will assume responsibility for leading WorkSafe’s health and safety operations.
[ + ]Compliance to battery safety requirements
Research published earlier this year has shown an increase in cases of serious injury and death caused by swallowing of lithium button cells.
[ + ]Bakery injury easily preventable
The SA Industrial Court has heard that a simple interlock device could have prevented an incident which cost an experienced baker her livelihood.
[ + ]Brickworks fined over conveyor injury
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.
[ + ]Crushed arm results in $26k fine
A metal fabricating company has been convicted and fined by an industrial magistrate following an incident in which an 18-year-old worker had his arm trapped by machinery.
[ + ]Satellite phone performance
Frost & Sullivan has conducted a study of the differences between satellite phone devices and services and has detailed this in a report.
[ + ]WorkSafe WA to keep watch on coating practices
WorkSafe WA has instigated a program to make businesses that conduct powder-coating activities aware of the dangers associated with it.
[ + ]Company pleads guilty to fatal insulation installation safety breach
A Rockhampton company pleaded guilty in the Rockhampton Industrial Magistrates Court over the death of a teenage insulation installer in the ceiling of a home in 2009.
[ + ]Safety improvements expected from Woolworths
Woolworths has committed to safety upgrades after a worker escaped injury only to be soaked in olive oil when boxes of bottles fell onto his specialised forklift at a regional distribution centre.
[ + ]WorkSafe slams Visy safety systems after forklift collision
Victorian workplaces are being warned to lift their game on traffic management following the prosecution of a national packing company after a worker was struck by a forklift.
[ + ]WorkSafe delivers solid financial and operational results
WorkSafe Victoria has reported its lowest-ever injury rate and solid financial results over the past financial year.
[ + ]Victorian inventors help improve safety
Over the past year, inventors across Victoria have been coming up with new and different ideas to make their working day safer.
[ + ]Australia’s first free-fall life boat training facility
IFAP has announced the establishment of Australia’s first free-fall life boat training facility in Fremantle to assist in offshore clients fulfilling their regulatory safety training requirements.
[ + ]Safety Institute of Australia Victorian Education Awards
A new wave of passion and energy for the OHS profession was acknowledged at the recent Safety Institute of Australia Victorian Education Awards.
[ + ]WorkSafe investigation into another workplace fatality
A man was fatally injured in West Melbourne after being crushed by a large plastic water tank.
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