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WA engineering company fined after worker lost part of his arm (Post)
A WA engineering company has recently been fined $200,000 over an incident in which a worker lost part of his arm, just below the elbow. The company was fined in the Armadale Magistrates Court after ...
Christchurch workplace death under police investigation(Post)Police in Christchurch are conducting an investigation into a workplace fatality that occurred in Hornby on Tuesday afternoon.Emergency services said they were alerted to the incident on Carmen Road ...
One Australian farmer commits suicide every 10 days, study reveals(Post)One farmer commits suicide every 10 days, the results of an Australian first study of suicide rates among farmers reveal. The study, which was based on ten years of data, found that the suicide rate ...
New Work Health and Safety laws begin March 31!(Post)New WHS laws for WAIn a recent media release, the Western Australian government announced that the state's new Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws are set to begin on 31 March 2022 and mark a "national ...
Inspection program focuses on construction sites along NSW/ACT border(Post)SafeWork NSW and WorkSafe ACT have partnered in a coordinated approach to improve work health and safety (WHS) on construction sites located along their shared border. The two workplace safety regul ...
Thursday 27th May 2021(Post)SafeWork focus on snowfield workplaces as the ski season approaches. Snowfield operators and SafeWork inspectors have met at an industry roundtable to begin this year's NSW Alpine Ski Area safet ...
Do you have an Emergency Response Plan?(Post)Are you a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU)? If so, it’s your duty to make an emergency plan. This includes an effective response to emergencies and testing the plan. You must ...
Man airlifted after chainsaw incident in South East Queensland(Post)A man in his twenties has been flown to a hospital by the LifeFlight aeromedical crew after suffering a leg injury from a chainsaw incident in the Gold Coast Hinterland. The LifeFlight rescue choppe ...
WorkCover launches new online course for Workplace Rehabilitation Providers(Post)A new online course for Workplace Rehabilitation Providershas been launched in Western Australia.The training will help Workplace Rehabilitation Providers understand Western Australia’s workers’ comp ...
Funding boost to minimise work-related psychological hazards for aged care workers(Post)The Centre for Transformative Work Design (CTWD) at Curtin University has been awarded $373,762 in funding from Safe Work Australia to explore ways to manage work-related psychological hazards f ...
Man flown to hospital after chainsaw incident in Queensland(Post)A man has been injured in a chainsaw incident in southeast Queensland.The man, believed to be in his 50s, reportedly injured his left leg with the chainsaw blade while he was felling trees on a ...
