ADT has announced it will become the official Australian partner with ObjectVideo, a leader in intelligent video surveillance software.

The owners and operators of a Hunter Valley colliery have been found guilty of safety breaches that led to the deaths of four miners in the Gretley disaster almost eight years ago.

Victorian police will start using saliva swabs to randomly test drivers for drugs. Police will test drivers for traces of cannabis and methamphetamine, known as 'speed' and used by long haul road transport drivers to stop them falling asleep at the wheel.

A shopping centre management company has been convicted and fined $40,000 after an 18-year-old worker became trapped under a forklift while helping set up a Sunday market at Croydon.

Former AFL chief Wayne Jackson has lent his support to a new Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) study into farm machinery injury.

Inspectors would make random visits to building sites to improve safety and compliance in the asbestos and demolition industry, the New South Wales Government has announced.

Army Reserves will have a greater role in the defence of Australia by providing security elements for Australian Naval vessels, the Minister for Defence Robert Hill announced recently.

Luxfer Gas Cylinders in Sydney's west recently installed a robotic solution to automate its powdercoat paintline. The gas cylinder manufacturers wanted to improve efficiencies at their manufacturing plant and reduce the need for manual lifting by their employees.The powdercoating process is a labour intensive operation requiring the gas cylinders - weighing up to 43 kg - to be manually lifted and hooked onto a moving overhead transport chain at a rate of up to four per minute. After painting and baking, the hot cylinders are unhooked and loaded onto a downstream conveyor for further processing.

Australians use more cannabis than people in the United States, Britain and the Netherlands. One in five young adults uses cannabis weekly and one in 10 users becomes dependent on the drug, Australian drug researchers have found.

Hundreds of thousands of people who regularly use a phone are likely to suffer from neck and back pain as well as headaches. According to the first detailed study of telephone users in the office environment, there is a measurable health risk for anyone using the phone for as little as two hours a day.

Guarding of machinery is the most fundamental of the requirements caught by occupational health and safety (OHS) obligations. The need to guard machinery has been part of the NSW regulatory framework since 1896. Yet in 2000/01, there were 353 cases of traumatic amputation of a limb at work in Australia.

With a sensible and stable legislative framework being developed, it is up to the industry to embrace a culture of care to ensure the gains which have been achieved through reform are not undone.

Korean car maker Kia has recalled about 27,000 Rio cars to fix a fuel line fault that could result in an engine fire. The company said there was a possibility that the fuel distribution rail might crack in some vehicles, resulting in a fuel leak.

A new type of the bird flu common among poultry in Asia is becoming deadlier and could spark a pandemic by mixing with human viruses, a leading scientist has warned.

Surfboards containing electronic shark shields would be available this Australian summer.