WorkSafe is advising employers to remember the importance of controlling the hazards involved in working at heights following an incident where a worker sustained injuries while carrying out roo ...

WorkSafe has filed charges against a Melbourne indoor play centre after an eight-year-old child experienced a fractured spine from a fall of about seven metres from a rope ladder.WorkSafe accuses the ...

Electrical shock while forming concrete slab. A worker was electrocuted while preparing to form up a concrete slab located next to an existing structure.The investigation into the incident is st ...

WorkSafe Victoria has filed a charge against a farming company after a farmer was fatally crushed by a bulka bag in May 2022.The charge is based on section 26(1) of the OHS Act, which accuses the com ...

Engineering company fined for apartment block crane collapse. In August 2017, three workers were injured at a construction site in Wolli Creek when a tower crane collapsed into a building.  A st ...

WorkSafe NZ has issued a safety alert underscoring the grave health and safety dangers posed by high levels of respirable crystalline silica (RCS) exposure for workers in the stone benchtop industry.

Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ) reminds mine operators to protect workers from heat stress following the onset of ElNiño.According to RSHQ, risk factors and thermal conditions in mines ...

A surge in COVID-19 infections has prompted Safe Work Australia to issue a reminder to employers to ensure their employees are safe at work. The federal safety agency says employers “must eliminate o ...

SafeWork SA reminds workplaces to ensure machines are properly guarded after a worker’s hand got stuck in a moving conveyor early last month.The worker had to be freed from the machine following the ...

The Northern Territory has reduced the workplace exposure standard (WES) for welding fumes from an 8-hour time weighted average (TWA) of 5 mg/m3 to 1 mg/m3.The change is effective immediately, a ...

Safe Work Australia is looking for suggestions on how to better the safety of crane operations in the maritime industry. Safe Work Australia said cranes that operate in dynamic environments, like th ...