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Safe Work Australia has announced the theme for this year's National Safe Work Month. October is designated as National Safe Work Month – a time to dedicate efforts to establishing safe and healthy work settings for all Australians. This year's theme, safety: every job, every day, urges all workplaces – irrespective of occupation, industry…
SafeWork SA has brought charges against a hotel in Adelaide along with its managing director after a worker reportedly caught fire while re-fuelling a fireplace. Legal proceedings have been commenced against the hotel and its managing director, regarded as an Officer under the Work Health and Safety Act, in the South Australian Employment Tribunal on…
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) has officially installed 10 Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras throughout NSW overseeing the safety of heavy vehicles on essential freight routes within the state. NHVR Chief Operations Officer Paul Salvati remarked that the deployment of the cameras will strengthen efforts to make Australia&r…
A man has been killed in an incident involving an ATV in Somerset on Friday evening. Emergency crews and police arrived at the scene around 5:50pm following reports of an ATV crash. The operator of the ATV was pronounced deceased at the site of the incident, according to police. Police said they will conduct an investigation to uncover the cause of th…
A government agency has been accused of violating federal work health and safety regulations following a violent assault on a worker at a Melbourne office. Subsequent to a Comcare investigation, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has lodged a singular charge claiming the agency did not fulfill its obligations as stipulated by the Work He…
This year, 40 Australian workers have tragically died at work, as reported by Safe Work Australia.  Leading the statistics is the transport, postal, and warehousing industry with 19 fatalities, followed by agriculture, forestry, and fishing with 4 fatalities, and construction with 3 deaths. Additionally, 8 fatalities are categorised as unknown. A…
A worker has been injured after falling about two meters at a Sydney construction site. At around 3:30pm on Friday, emergency services were dispatched to Fontana Drive in Gables following reports of a work-related incident. Reports indicated the man fell approximately two meters and incurred an injury to his forearm. He was hurriedly transported to We…
The NSW Resources Regulator has released an investigative report concerning an incident in 2023, in which a worker's arm was surgically removed by emergency services to extricate him after it became caught in the idler drum of a moving conveyor belt on a mobile screening unit. The Resources Regulator says investigators identified multiple factors that…
SafeWork SA has initiated legal action against an energy firm, claiming that the company subjected its employees to hazardous levels of lead while decommissioning its power station located near Adelaide. Last week, SafeWork SA initiated proceedings in the South Australian Employment Court following a thorough and detailed investigation. It is claimed…