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.

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.

Frost & Sullivan has conducted a study of the differences between satellite phone devices and services and has detailed this in a report.

WorkSafe WA has instigated a program to make businesses that conduct powder-coating activities aware of the dangers associated with it.

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.

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.

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 Victoria has reported its lowest-ever injury rate and solid financial results over the past financial year.

Over the past year, inventors across Victoria have been coming up with new and different ideas to make their working day safer.