safety

Nissan Australia has issued a product safety recall on its T31 Nissan X-Trail and J10 Nissan Dualis due to manufacturing fault in the power steering control unit, which can stop power assisted steering.

SKILLED Group, a labour hire company, has been convicted and fined $50,000 over a 2009 incident where a worker’s arm was crushed in a machine.

Three workers have been seriously injured following an explosion yesterday at OneSteel’s Waratah mill.

Toyota has called a worldwide safety recall on three of its car models after insufficient adhesive around the steering wheel caused a local driver’s power steering to fail.

V8 Supercar constructor Triple Eight Race Engineering is using welding helmets from Welding Industries of Australia (WIA) to protect workers’ eyes from flash burn.

With the OHS due to take place next year, businesses can now delay Work Health and Safety laws by up to 12 months if the transformation will embark significant change.

Another chemical leak at the embattled Kooragang Island chemical plant has seen two people taken to hospital.

Fall protection training is crucial for any worker who performs work at height. Without the proper training, workers may not realise the severe consequences of a fall—serious injury or even death. Self-retracting lifeline (SRL) are becoming more common on job sites because they reduce fall distance and fall clearance requirements.

WorkSafe has launched a campaign urging safety improvements before an inspector visits.

Designing rack structures to cope with the unpredictable forces generated during an earthquake requires a combination of detailed engineering, sophisticated computer analysis, and a degree of crystal ball gazing – on the part of the engineer – into how the storage system may be utilised over its lifetime.

AUSTRALIA has some of the highest levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation in the world. Too much UV can cause sunburn, premature ageing, eye damage and skin damage leading to skin cancer.

Many cartridge dust collectors today are equipped with a bank of filters installed downstream of the clean air discharge. These systems are known by a variety of names – safety monitoring filter, secondary filter, after-filter and safety filter being the most common terms.

Newcastle residents have raised concerns of plumes of nitrogen dioxide coming from a Kooragang Island nitric acid manufacturing plant owned by Orica.

Newcastle residents have raised concerns of plumes of nitrogen dioxide coming from a Kooragang Island nitric acid manufacturing plant owned by Orica.

Approximately 236 Cambodian workers have fainted this week at Anful Garments Factory, in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia, local police have told media.

A Chinese-made car has been named one of the shonkiest products available in Australia, due to its roofracks that come with a warning: ‘Do not use’.

Tenneco Automotive Operating Company has been issued 20 safety and health violations forexposing workers to hexavalent chromium, a harm chemical which can lead to nose, throat and lung damage.

Opening today and running till 27 October, The 2011 Safety Show Sydney will focus on workplace safety management.

The opening day of Safe Work Week 2011 in South Australia will be marked by insights into how to deal with OHS disputes within the workplace.

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