An ACT company has been fined $200,000 under a new OHS law after a worker was injured by a hazard previously identified by the company’s risk assessment process.

A revision of the standard for confined spaces will address the criticism that the definition in the current standard is difficult to apply.

SafeWork SA is calling for entries into the Safe Work Awards for 2006.

Standards Australia funding will continue at current or increased levels if recommendations from a draft report are followed that suggest it remain Australia’s peak standards development organisation.

A 62-year-old truck driver has died after a log being loaded onto his truck fell and hit him.

The new standard for the safety of machinery has finally been published.

The Victorian State Coroner’s Office has launched an online newsletter featuring details of work-related cases in an effort to prevent further fatalities.

A man has died in hospital 10 months after his forklift tipped and crushed him.

The ASCC has pronounced the recent harmonisation talks on a national strategy for OHS to be “constructiveâ€.

NSW representatives have been directed to wait for a commitment from the ASCC that today’s harmonisation talks will be subject to four principles outlined at the 18 May COAG meeting before joining in the discussions.

NSW representatives have joined today’s meeting of the occupational health and safety working group, according to an announcement by the ASCC just before one o’clock this afternoon.

Prohibition notices stopping some of the work at an Adelaide building site remain in place after three workers were taken to hospital with smoke inhalation on 13 July.

The Automation Business Forum that was to run a day prior to the Manufacturing Technology InFocus exhibition in October has been postponed until 2007.

The annual Automate exhibition will be held for the 18th year running, but for the first time will be presented under the new name Manufacturing Technology InFocus (MTech).

The maximum fines for South Australian corporations convicted of safety breaches are set to triple.