WorkSafe’s campaign targeting slips, trips and falls shifts its focus onto the construction industry.

Recently published analyses of the 2005-06 Work Related Injuries Survey reveal that young workers incur higher rates of injury than other age groups but were less likely to apply for workers compensation.

Safe Work Australia Council has recommended the release of a suite of OHS documents for a public comment to further the development of the model OHS Act.

The South Australian government's Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (DTEI) was recently recognised for its leadership in road transport safety at the 2009 Australasian Fleet Managers Association Awards.

Queensland-based Control Logic is now the exclusive Australian distributor for Schmersal and SUNX industrial and safety products.

A worker was seriously injured when a bank of gas bottles he was handling exploded.

A Queensland-based safety expert has been honoured by the Chinese government for his contribution to work safety and economic development in the north-east region of China.

A botched concrete pour in Adelaide has resulted in both the building owner and its company director being fined.

A prominent South Australian sheet metal manufacturer was convicted over an incident that injured a worker in a machine.

WorkSafe Victoria has issued a warning about the dangers of pedestrains in close proximity of forklifts, following a serious injury to a man who tripped while handling material supported by a forklift.

WorkSafe Victoria has launched a concerted assault on the state’s biggest source of workplace injuries which cost the community $600 million a year in medical treatment and rehabilitation bills.

Comcare has recently issued a Safety Alert about slag-pot dislodgement on a slag-pot carrier.

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.