Meeting to increase workplace safety
24 April, 2006The Australian Safety and Compensation (ASCC) met in Hobart in April 2006 to discuss ways to prevent workplace death, injury and disease; to improve workers’ compensation arrangements, and the rehabilitation and return to work of injured employees.
South Australian company takes top safety award
08 March, 2006The South Australian-based Hardy Wine Company has taken top honours at the 2005 Safe Work Australia Awards.
Tailor-made safety systems
07 February, 2006A recent decision of the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales serves as a timely warning to employers on generic safe work method statements
Nail gun injury inquiry
02 August, 2005The way nail guns are used (bump firing) and the level of training may be factors to explain the number of nail gun related injuries, according to a recent study by the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
The legislation for 'rogue employers'
07 July, 2005 | Supplied by: Ashurst formerly Blake Dawson Waldron LawOn 10 June 2005, the Occupational Health and Safety (Workplace Deaths) Bill 2005 (NSW) (Workplace Deaths Bill) completed its passage through both houses of the New South Wales Parliament
Formaldehyde causes cancer
11 June, 2005The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has ruled that the common chemical formaldehyde is a carcinogen.
Yoga a health hazard
01 June, 2005Yoga exponents are being caught out by the activity's relaxing and low impact image with more than one in four injured during sessions.
Spinal injury from workplace incident
29 May, 2005Tieman Industries has been fined $275,000 by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission sitting in Court Session following a workplace incident that led to the permanent disability of a worker.
Risk was forseeable
21 April, 2005A Sydney manufacturer has been fined $208,000 by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission sitting in Court Session following the death of a young worker at its Revesby factory in 2001.
WorkSafe head to deliver report card at Safety in Action
17 March, 2005Determined to lead a more transparent WorkSafe Victoria, Executive Director John Merritt promises to bare all in his March 21 keynote address to delegates at the Safety in Action Conference.
Low level falls can kill
09 March, 2005A company has been fined the Magistrates' Court's jurisdictional limit of $100,000 after a workplace death at the Sportsgirl shop at the Southland Shopping Centre.
Workplace radiation safety standard
04 March, 2005Government testing authorities have confirmed that it is possible for microwave ovens that show no sign of physical damage to emit radiation levels that exceed the Australian Standard and International emission limit.
Fire engineering now trendy
28 February, 2005Fire safety engineering has helped to create a masterpiece in urban re-generation in the newly opened building known as 'The Refinery' at Cutters Landing in Brisbane.
Mine found guilty over disaster
17 January, 2005The 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.
Saliva tests for drivers
14 January, 2005Victorian 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.
