ATO reminder to lodge quarterly BAS by 28 February
25 February, 2014"With the next quarterly BAS due on 28 February, Australian businesses need to plan for timely and accurate lodgment, even if there is nothing to report or the business may not be able to pay straight away," Deputy Commissioner Steve Vesperman said today.
Safety in Action heading to Outback Australia
21 February, 2014Australian safety trade show Safety in Action is heading to Outback Australia. The exhibition will take over the Darwin Convention Centre from 19-20 March 2014 and will be a one-stop shop for all things safety.
Zero in on health at trucking conference
20 February, 2014It's time to make the trucking industry a healthy industry of choice, as Linfox safety specialist Andrew Niven shares his strategies for improving industry health and wellbeing at Trucking Australia 2014.
Is suicide a workplace health and safety issue?
20 February, 2014A one-day Construction Industry Inaugural Mental Health Conference (20 February, Brisbane) will address the question of whether suicide is a workplace health and safety issue and promote collaboration around mental health, wellbeing and suicide prevention across the industry and between companies.
Beauty, not disease, motivates teens to wear sunscreen
19 February, 2014One health-ed video describes the increased skin cancer risk of UV exposure and the other describes effects on appearance including wrinkles and premature ageing. Which of these two videos do you think caused teenagers to use more sunscreen six weeks after it was shown?
Poor air quality signals a call for workplace safety
19 February, 2014As fires in the Hazelwood open cut coalmine continue to affect air quality in the Latrobe Valley of eastern Victoria, the Victorian WorkCover Authority is advising workplaces in the region to take steps to reduce the impact of bushfire and coal fire smoke on their staff.
Project to prevent house construction deaths and injuries
18 February, 2014WorkCover NSW has launched a project to improve safety in the state's house construction industry after more than 150 workers were seriously injured or killed on the job in the last two years.
Machine and function safety on the agenda at ACI Connect conference
18 February, 2014Australia's new automation, control and instrumentation conference - ACI Connect - will feature two half-day 'Safety of Machinery' workshops from industrial safety specialist Frank Schrever and a case study presentation titled 'Functional Safety - who is safe?'.
Technology cuts through the noise
14 February, 2014Having difficulty listening to conversations in noisy cafes and social gatherings? This could soon be a thing of the past for the hearing impaired, due to technology that cuts through background noise.
Occupational safety in transport conference
13 February, 2014Abstracts are now being accepted for OSIT2014: The 2nd International Occupational Safety in Transport Conference and close on 17 March 2014. The conference will be a multidisciplinary event featuring representatives from road and transport safety, aviation and watercraft, fleets, safety culture and management, construction safety and associated fields.
Engineering conference features machine safety
12 February, 2014Industry 4.0, cybersecurity, ethernet in industry, machine safety, future manufacturing and skills shortages are just some of the hot topics that will be covered at the inaugural ACI Connect conference being held in Melbourne from 9 to 10 April 2014.
Outdoor workers face increased cancer risk
12 February, 2014Perth researchers have completed a comprehensive study into Australian workers and their exposure to ultraviolet radiation - a known human carcinogen.
A gateway to the emerging security and safety market of Vietnam
12 February, 2014Secutech Vietnam 2014 is scheduled to be held from 20-22 August 2014 at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Managing asthma in the workplace
10 February, 2014 | Supplied by: Asthma AustraliaFor those working in the mining, manufacturing and food and beverage industries, employee health is crucial to safety and productivity in the workplace. In these occupations, the work environment can result in 'occupational asthma'. In particular, air quality can be problematic and is just one of the triggers for an asthma attack - which can happen at any time.
Alcohol and drug testing - a hot topic at Safety in Action Darwin 2014
10 February, 2014A discussion on alcohol and drug testing in the workplace is one of the key feature topics at Safety in Action Darwin - a two-day safety trade show and exhibition being held at the Darwin Convention Centre on Wednesday 19 March and Thursday 20 March 2014.
