safety

West Australian commerce minister Simon O’Brien has welcomed the news that NSW will not implement the national OH&S laws.

West Australian commerce minister Simon O’Brien has welcomed the news that NSW will not implement the national OH&S laws.

Safe Work Australia chair Tom Phillips, is encouraging Australians to use the National Safe Work Australia Week to put spotlight on safety in the workplace.

Technicians servicing electric vehicles are worried the OEMs they’re working for aren’t concerned for their safety.

The National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA), continued calls for governments at all levels to work together to stamp out dodgy solar installers and protect consumers following official government figures that show many installations are dangerous.

Bundaberg Brewed Drinks are recalling one batch its Burgundee creaming soda drink due to risk of the product shattering.

Safe Work Australia released the Thirteenth Edition of the Comparative Performance Monitoring (CPM) report, on Australia’s work health and safety and workers’ compensation outcomes for 2009-10.

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.