A boy has been injured after crashing his quad bike on sand dunes in Western Australia.The RAC Rescue Helicopter was sent to Lancelin on Friday morning to treat and airlift the injured boy.Reports indicated the boy sustained non-life-threatening injuries.Five people have died in quad bike incidents this year.Originally published in PerthNow.…
A disability service provider has been charged by SafeWork SA after a worker was sexually assaulted by a client. SafeWork SA accuses the organisation of failing in their health and safety duty to protect an employee who was on duty.The safety watchdog alleges that the organisation failed to provide a safe work environment and did not provide enough inf…
Victorian businesses have less than a week to submit entries for this year’s WorkSafe Awards.The awards honour Victorian businesses for their commitment to improving workplace health and safety. The awards are open to all businesses operating in Victoria, and entrants can nominate themselves or another person in any of the seven categories. WorkSafe CE…
A 55-year-old man has been killed in a truck unloading incident in Victoria, taking the state’s workplace fatality toll to 28.The 55-year-old man became trapped between a tip truck and a front-end loader in Cowwarr while grain pellets were being unloaded on Tuesday morning.WorkSafe is investigating. Source: WorkSafe Victoria website.…
A proactive compliance campaign focusing on lead risk work was launched early this week in South Australia.SafeWork SA said inspectors will visit businesses in metropolitan and regional areas on 4 July 2022 to ensure workers are protected from lead exposure.The safety watchdog added that Persons Conducting Businesses or Undertakings (PCBU) will also be…
A worker who suffered serious burns in a restaurant fire in Sydney’s west last month has succumbed to his injuries.Police said the 24-year-old man was using a cleaning product when a fire broke out. The man was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital, where he died two weeks later.SafeWork is investigating the incident. Source: NSW Pol…
WorkCover WA has announced the release of the WorkCover WA Strategic Plan 2022 – 2025: Building on Strength.The four-year plan focuses on three priorities including, Strategic Scheme Management, Modernising Workers Compensation Laws and People, culture and systems.WorkCover WA said, “The WorkCover WA Board, Corporate Executive team and staff are commit…
A New Zealand court has ordered two companies to pay $340,000 following the death of a 74-year-old man who died while cleaning a machine. The man had climbed into a bin lifter to clean it when he became trapped. He tried to operate its controls from inside but was unable to stop the machine. The incident happened in December 2019. WorkSafe’s area inves…
Latest Safe Work Australia statistics show 81 Australian workers died on the job in the first half of 2022.The Transport, postal and warehousing industry had the highest number of work-related deaths, with 34 fatalities, ten more than at the same time last year. Agriculture, forestry & fishing came second with 18 fatalities, while the Construction…
NSW Resources Regulator has issued a safety alert after a boilermaker received burns in an incident involving the ignition of a flammable substance.The regulator says the incident happened on June 7 2022, when the boilermaker was replacing a plug on a Caterpillar 6050 face shovel.NSW Resources Regulator said “The boilermaker was striking an arc on a te…
New laws that took effect on 1 July 2022 require food delivery platforms to supply their delivery riders with high-visibility personal protective equipment.Minister for Fair Trading Eleni Petinos said the NSW Government consulted with industry on the changes. “From today, food delivery booking providers must supply their delivery riders with high-visib…
The Royal Flying Doctor Service was tasked to a quad bike crash on Flinders Island on Sunday morning.A woman in her 40s sustained serious upper-body injuries after the quad bike she was riding rolled just after midnight.Police said the woman was carrying a pillion passenger at the time of the incident. The passenger escaped unhurt.The woman was flown t…