John Holland and Thiess admit to OHS failings, will fund major safety research investment
06 July, 2012Two of Australia’s largest construction companies, John Holland and Thiess, have entered into a $225,000 enforceable undertaking after two concrete sound barrier panels, each weighing 11.3 tonnes, fell from a contractor’s truck near the Eastlink tollway project in Ringwood, Melbourne, in October 2006.
Proposed NSW Asbestos Plan: have your say
05 July, 2012The draft NSW state-wide asbestos plan is now available on the WorkCover website for an eight-week public consultation period. Public comment is open until 5 pm, Friday 17 August 2012.
APESMA survey finds professionals get bullied too
04 July, 2012A new survey of 351 APESMA members has revealed that almost 5% of Australian engineers, scientists and other professionals have witnessed acts of violence in their workplace.
Better protections for clothing industry outworkers
02 July, 2012The Minister for Workplace Relations, Bill Shorten, has said that the improved conditions for outworkers in the textile, clothing and footwear (TCF) industry - most of them women - deliver nationally consistent rights and legal protections for the first time.
National road safety tribunal to improve safety for Australian road users
02 July, 2012Australia’s first national Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal began operation yesterday. The tribunal has the power to set pay and conditions for truck drivers to reduce the economic pressures on truck drivers to meet unfair and unrealistic deadlines which risk their own lives and the lives of others.
Job control can reduce sick days from back pain
29 June, 2012As Western Australia struggles with a skilled labour shortage, a Perth researcher and orthopaedic surgeon has published important findings on long work absences due to lower back pain.
Historic Equal Remuneration Order for hard-working community sector workers
28 June, 2012The Gillard government has welcomed the first Equal Remuneration Order handed down by Fair Work Australia (FWA). The order details how the social and community sector workers - most of them women - will receive significant pay rises.
Australians work too hard, says expert
28 June, 2012Overwork is significantly impacting the mental health and wellbeing of Australians, a Flinders University labour studies expert warns.
Much to consider in FIFO worker wellbeing
27 June, 2012 by Nicole Nott and Dr Denise Keenan*An invasion of bumblebees may sound like something best dealt with by an exterminator but for some towns this isn’t a viable solution. Bumblebees is an often derogatory term used to described the yellow, fluorescent-striped uniform-wearing miners who are perceived as infiltrating family-based communities, bringing with them inflated housing and food prices, drunken bad behaviour and lack of engagement with the local community. It is easy to have some sympathy for these townships and communities; however, a balance needs to be struck in order for Australia to remain a prosperous nation enjoying world-leading employment, health and lifestyle.
High Court decision may put workers’ redundancy pay at risk, says Clayton Utz
26 June, 2012Employees of collapsed companies may be adversely affected by the High Court’s ruling that the Commonwealth’s funding of the school chaplains program is constitutionally invalid.
WorkCover investigating fatal forklift incident
26 June, 2012WorkCover NSW is investigating after a 40-year-old male worker died in a forklift incident at Flemington markets this morning.
RMIT sets the ball rolling in OHS program accreditation
25 June, 2012The OHS profession moves into a new era with the first university-level program approved by the new Australian OHS Education Accreditation.
Australia’s best workplaces recognised
25 June, 2012Minister for Employment Bill Shorten has congratulated the top 50 of BRW’s annual Best Place to Work list and encouraged Australian employers and employees to look to these workplaces for lessons on how to improve their own.
Horsham company fined $50K over sweep auger injury
22 June, 2012Following an incident in which a worker’s leg was caught in a sweep auger, a Horsham company has been fined $50,000.
OHS attracts salaries 90% above the average Australian salary
20 June, 2012As workforces across the country strike and headcount is reduced, career prospects in the OHS sector remain strong, attracting pay packages more than 90% above the average Australian salary.
