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Thursday 25th February 2021(Post)
New COVID-19 fact sheet released for indoor workplaces. Safe Work Australia has released a new COVID-19 fact sheet on Improving ventilation in indoor workplaces.The fact sheet offers practi ...
New Product Release for Mosquito-Borne Diseases(Post)New Product Release for Mosquito-Borne DiseasesSafe Work Australia released guidance on Japanese encephalitis on 22nd April 2022, reinforcing that business owners have a duty of care to eliminate or ...
Thursday 4th March 2021(Post)Crane hire company charged over serious crush injury. A Darwin mobile crane hire company has been charged by NT WorkSafe over an incident where two workers were injured.In February 2019, the cra ...
Implementing an Emergency Response Plan in the Workplace(Post)In emergencies, the response's speed and accuracy depend highly on the actions taken in the first moments. To minimise harm, employers must warn employees to evacuate, take shelter or go into lockdow ...
Injuries at Work: 5 Strategies to Reduce Injuries(Post)In 2022, there were 195 tragic worker fatalities resulting from injuries sustained during work-related activities. Injuries in the workplace are serious issues that can have devastating consequences ...
Death of a residential care user(Post)Death of a residential care user left alone in the bath. A company that provides community residential support services to people with intellectual disabilities has been sentenced over the ...
SA safety alert focuses on risks with excavation work(Post)SA safety alert focuses on risks with excavation work.Following two separate incidents in two weeks involving collapsed trenches, SafeWork SA has released new information to help manage the risk of g ...
Improvements to transport safety identified in WorkSafe New Zealand report(Post)Improvements to transport safety identified in WorkSafe New Zealand report. A project between WorkSafe New Zealand and a cross-sector of industry representatives has formed with the joint outcom ...
Monday 19th April 2021(Post)Power Lines Hit by Crane. A truck driver received an electric shock when the boom of the crane he was operating struck overhead power lines. The driver was delivering timber to a building site a ...
Monday 22nd February 2021(Post)Multiple charges over apprentice jockey's death. WorkSafe has charged a turf club with six alleged breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act for failing to ensure people were not expo ...
Findings released into bulldozer collision death(Post)Findings released into bulldozer collision death. In 2019 a 47-year-old father of two was killed when a bulldozer collided with his utility at a mine in NSW.A report into the death has now been ...
