The SMARTsafe Group has awarded exclusive Sales Partnership Contracts to sell their range of 'simple software and systems solutions for SEQ training and management' in the states of WA, Vic and SA.

In a first for Victoria, emergency services are undertaking a six month trial of advanced technology that will ensure they reach emergency situations faster than ever before.

One of the world's leading providers of fire protection solutions, Wormald, has become the first company to attain a Scientific Service Laboratory (SSL) approval listing for its heavy vehicle fire suppression systems.

Manufacturers will be getting a helping hand to make their chemical processing plants safer and more effective, thanks to new technology pioneered by a university spin-out company.

Employers are being warned not to be complacent about the potential for compensation claims from staff suffering psychological damage at work.

Forklift trucks are among the most dangerous pieces of equipment in the Australian workplace.

If you've ever laboured with paint removers, brushes, scrapers, sanders and paint burning equipment, you'll know just how tedious and time-consuming it can be to remove layer upon layer of old paint.

BHP Steel has been fined a total of $120,000 after two employees were overcome by ozone gas at its Port Kembla Steelworks three years ago.

One of Australia's biggest retailers has been fined $20,000 after a forklift fell from the back of a truck into the well of a loading dock in March last year.

A Geelong magistrate has told a business operator he could have gone to jail if an employee had fallen from the roof on which he was working.

A group of United Water employees in South Australia has invented a device that could greatly reduce the risks of serious injury for water utility workers around the world.

Before a gathering of 450 of their engineering peers, the Trans-Tasman Siemens Prize for Innovation was awarded to a duo from the University of Auckland on June 6.

Bionic man - or more accurately polymer person - has arrived, thanks to a team from Wollongong University and Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) recently said the results of its year-long dangerous goods blitz across NSW showed the transport industry was making a real effort to comply with environment and safety regulations.

The US Department of Health and Human Services will begin testing a system using handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) for transmitting urgent information about biological agents to clinicians.