Australia is falling well short of national targets to reduce workplace deaths and injuries and proposed new national OHS laws could put Australian workers further at risk, say unions.

A recent report from the Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner shows a growth in the number of construction companies accredited to the Australian Government Building and Construction OHS Accreditation Scheme.

The ACT government recently amended its Work Safety Act to allow a more effective work safety administration regime for sharing of protected information.

Inaco Automation Controls has signed a distribution agreement with Zone Safety Systems to distribute its machine guarding systems in Australia.

Changes to the ACT Workers Compensation law will streamline the administration of claims for injured workers whose employers have failed to comply with their legal obligations.

A paper prepared by the Tasmanian Minister for Workplace Relations invites comment on proposed amendments to the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 to enable access for occupational health and safety (OHS) purposes.

Australia’s ICT Research Centre, NICTA, has developed a new generation of highly reliable software, destined for deployment in safety and security systems.
 

B&D Australia has been convicted and fined $300,000 over an incident at its factory where an employee was killed after being struck by a steel tube he was lifting with a crane.

A Melbourne man was recently convicted and fined for fraudulently obtaining workers compensation after a back injury.

Springvale, Flemington, Kensington and North Melbourne are the latest Melbourne suburbs to be targeted as part of WorkSafe’s Safer Work Zones campaign for small businesses.

Comcare has issued a safety alert warning of a potentially contaminated batch of the industrial chemical oleyl diamine.

Caroma was recently fined over an incident at its South Australian operations that left an employee with severe burns.

The OFSC is auditing its reaccreditation process for construction companies in order to simplify the process.

The building and costruction industry is being encouraged to provide feedback on OHS matters to the Federal Safety Commissioner.

A Victorian blasting company has been fined and convicted over a string of safety failings that occurred while blasting at a housing development site.