Visitor registrations to Australia's largest workplace safety event, Safety In Action and Melbourne Materials Handling, are up by 20 per cent compared to this time last year.
In November 2009, Standards Australia released AS/NZS 1891.4.2009, which covers the selection, use and maintenance of Industrial Fall Arrest systems and devices.
WORKING at height is dangerous. Employers should be fully aware that the most effective way of ensuring their employees' safety is to eliminate the need for people to work at height at all, thereby removing any risk of a fall.
Carl Sachs* answers FAQs to help supervisors stay on the right side of the law.
Organisers of the Safety In Action and Melbourne Materials Handling trade show predict thousands of new safety solutions across three acres, the National Forklift Championships and an entirely new Fire and Security feature area will be the highlights of this year's events.
Determining who is legally responsible for height safety is often difficult for the courts, so it should be no surprise that deciding financial responsibility is equally as fraught. Carl Sachs* reports.
A CUSTOM-made platform has solved an occupational health and safety access issue for Australia's largest producer of road transport trailing solutions.
THE 10,000 or more visitors expected to return to the Melbourne Exhibition Centre for Safety In Action and Melbourne Materials Handling next month will see plenty of fresh OHS exhibitors and an entirely new fire and security feature area.
Planned changes to AS/NZS 1891.4 provide essential clarification workers need to use fall arrest, rather than restraint, equipment in every situation where there is a risk of a fall. Gordon Cadzow* reports.
RECENT changes to the standard for the manufacture of height safety products deliver a higher specification at product level; however they are not so relevant if they are not accompanied by a change in approach and attitude by organisations and their workforce as to correct equipment use.