ONE in four truck drivers admit to having fallen off a truck and, despite the relatively low heights, the falls often break bones and can even cause severe head injuries.
WorkSafe Victoria has today launched a graphic new campaign aimed at Generation Y, their families and employers in a bid to reduce the rate of young workers ending up in the emergency ward at Victorian hospitals as a result of workplace injuries.
WORKSAFE Victoria has released new guidance to help improve the safety of people who own, use or maintain bridge and gantry cranes.
WORKSafe Victoria has released new guidance to assist employers and injured workers with the return to work process.
INJURIES suffered by two Chinese guest workers in Australia on Section 457 visas have cost Campbellfield company, Lakeside Packaging, a conviction and fines totalling $100,000.
WORKSAFE Victoria has released a guide for operating a variety of configurations of bridges and gantry cranes. The guide covers powered operations including traversing, travelling, hoisting and rotation.
PEOPLE who operate forklifts, cranes and a wide range of other high risk equipment as well as those working in a number of occupations under ‘Certificates of competency’ or ‘tickets’ need to switch to the new ‘Licence to Perform High Risk Work’.
EMPLOYERS and workers need to take a zero-tolerance approach to workplace initiations and pranks which can lead to serious injury and potentially death WorkSafe Victoria says.
BUSINESSES in Melbourne’s eastern and south eastern suburbs will be the first to learn about a major safety campaign being launched by WorkSafe Victoria.
AUSTRALASIAN tissue company, SCA Hygiene, will feature in this month’s WorkSafe Insights program highlighting the systems and procedures that led to them receiving a WorkSafe Award for workplace safety excellence.