safety

PANASONIC Toughbook CF-19 units are being used by Honda Australia dealers to perform health checks on their vehicles.

Fonterra Australia has been fined $300,000 for unsafe storage practices following the death of a worker at its cheese factory in Victoria.

The future of the global printing and packaging industries is looking up, with unions committed to making working conditions better in developing countries, according to a print union member.

WorkCover NSW has announced an innovative new online tool to help businesses estimate annual workers compensation costs.

Fifteen people were evacuated from the Cadbury Schweppes factory in Scores, Victoria last Friday afternoon following a nitric acid leak which caused a cloud of highly irritant vapour to be released into the atmosphere.

An investigation into the leak of hexavalent chromium at Orica’s Kooragang Island facility is expected to finish this month.

Safe Work Australia Chair, Tom Phillips AM, announced the start of the public comment period for 15 draft model Codes of Practice, to support the new model work health and safety legislation.

Free workshops and seminars in tandem with The Safety Show Sydney on 25-27 October will provide visitors with a golden opportunity to learn all about the new workplace safety setting and its impacts.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is shaming the West Australian government for failing to sign off on the national harmonisation of OHS laws, claiming the state is putting ‘politics before the state’s workers’.

Exhaust emissions from cars are a toxic nightmare for the planet, but vehicles start polluting even before they hit the road.

The WA opposition says Cockburn residents have been “betrayed” by the government’s failure to make public the legal appeal by Cockburn Cement against conditions that would have forced it to install pollution control measures.

The WA opposition says Cockburn residents have been “betrayed” by the government’s failure to make public the legal appeal by Cockburn Cement against conditions that would have forced it to install pollution control measures.

A company that manufacturers brakes in Sydney has been fined $125,000, after an employee was killed whilst cleaning a high-powered blender, as reported in news.com.au.

A South West chemical company has been fined $90,000 over an acid spill in February 2010 which seriously burned four factory workers – one of which had to have his leg amputated as a result of the injuries.

The 2012 Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards – to be held on Wednesday 9 May during National Manufacturing Week 2012 in Sydney – will reward those companies and individuals that stand out from the crowd.

The death of a newborn baby while being carried in a baby sling has prompted the ACCC to consider manufacturing safety standards for the slings, SMH.com.au has reported.

Fuchs Lubricants has made a public announcement to guarantee the safety of its metalworking fluids, after reports from the US that some brands contain biocides which have been found to contain a carcinogen that causes cancer in humans.

The “planking” craze that has taken over Australia has cost two Melbourne factory workers their jobs and landed them in court after posting photos of the activity on Facebook.

Toyota Australia has initiated a vehicle safety recall on its Toyota Dyna flat-bed trucks produced from October 2000 to August 2004.

Auto component maker Monroe Australia has been fined more than $30,000 last Monday for failing to provide and maintain a safe system of work after an employee was injured in 2008 while performing a task that was determined to be unsafe and later found to be unnecessary.