WorkSafe Victoria has issued a plea for employers and workers to take a more active approach to workplace safety.

The ACTU has an online petition calling on the government to introduce the highest standards of OHS through the harmonisation process currently underway. The petition calls for amendments to legislation to meet the minimum standards detailed in the ACTU OHS Charter.

Legislation to establish Safe Work Australia, the replacement body for the Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC), was introduced into parliament at the end of last week.

A Loch Sport sawmill labourer faces the possibility of six months in gaol after pleading guilty to fraudulently obtaining nearly $17,000 in workers compensation payments.

New Zealand’s Department of Labour recently put out a call to businesses to take action to make their workplaces safer in order to curb the number of workplace fatalities.

The incidence rate of workplace injuries across NSW is below the national average, according to the ASCC's 10th Comparative Performance Monitoring Report for 2006–07.

A Victorian County Court Judge has told PaperlinX it had only a "reasonable chance of rehabilitation", after a series of safety failings at its Maryvale Mill in Gippsland led to the death of a worker in 2005.

The Workplace Relations Ministers' Council (WRMC) met in Sydney recently to discuss progress in the Workplace Relations Bill, OHS harmonisation, Comcare, removal of the ASCC, industry awards and the 457 Visa Inquiry.

The government has released the Comparative Performance Monitoring (CPM) report on Australia’s OHS and workers compensation outcomes for 2006–07.

Australian and New Zealand Heads of Workplace Safety Authorities (HWSA) met in Sydney recently to discuss the progress of a range of initiatives to further OHS management across Australian workplaces.

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A civil engineering contractor has been fined over an incident in which a worker fell nearly five metres to the bottom of a maintenance shaft when a ladder collapsed.

The Department of Mining Safety and Health has issued a product recall of Industrial Scientific’s 4CF carbon monoxide sensors, after finding some makes could suddenly stop detecting the gas.

The Commission for Occupational Safety and Health and its Mining Industry Advisory Committee are seeking public comment from interested parties on a draft Code of Practice: Safeguarding of machinery and plant.

A chilling incident in which a man's arm was removed at the shoulder in a machine this week has prompted a WorkSafe Victoria warning that guarding had to be a higher priority for business.