Integral Energy has been fined a total of $150,000 by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission sitting in court session following serious injury to a worker using a woodchipping machine.

Boral Construction Materials has been fined $200,000 by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission sitting in Court Session following the death of a road worker near Goulburn in 1999.

WorkCover NSW chief executive officer, Jon Blackwell said that WorkCover is continuing its efforts to keep truck drivers safe with its latest compliance blitz on falls from heavy vehicles.

Known as a ceramifiable polymer, it behaves like an ordinary plastic at room temperature but the high temperatures experienced during a fire cause it to harden into a type of ceramic, allowing wiring to be protected from the flames.

A NSW coroner's jury has recommended safety measures at the Perilya Broken Hill mine, in western NSW, after an inquest into the death of an employee underground.

Hundreds of serious mistakes occurred in NSW hospitals over the past year, at least 128 of them resulting in death, the NSW government has admitted in a recent report.

A Sydney manufacturer has been fined $208,000 by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission sitting in Court Session following the death of a young worker at its Revesby factory in 2001.

NSW Commerce Minister, John Della Bosca has called for public comment on proposed new regulations for the safe management and control of explosives and other dangerous goods. "The new requirements are designed to allay public concern about the safety and security of dangerous goods facilities in NSW, as well as ensure a nationally consistent approach," said Della Bosca.

The horror of the terrorist attack on the Russian school children of Besian last year has given Australia's first post-graduate course in disaster health management a tragic focus, Associate Professor Peter Leggat said recently.

Australian safety professionals have branded the new Victorian Occupational Health and Safety Act as bureaucratic, unscientific and unlikely to be any more effective than the legislation it replaces.

Jeff Kennett, chair of national depression initiative 'beyondblue', will moderate a forum of high profile panellists addressing psychological injuries in the workplace.

Determined to lead a more transparent WorkSafe Victoria, Executive Director John Merritt promises to bare all in his March 21 keynote address to delegates at the Safety in Action Conference.

With a greater breadth and depth than ever before, the Safety In Action Conference will showcase the growing strength of occupational health and safety.

A company has been fined the Magistrates' Court's jurisdictional limit of $100,000 after a workplace death at the Sportsgirl shop at the Southland Shopping Centre.

Government testing authorities have confirmed that it is possible for microwave ovens that show no sign of physical damage to emit radiation levels that exceed the Australian Standard and International emission limit.