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Monday 1st March 2021(Post)
Failure to dispose of waste results in a man being fined $10,000. A man has been fined $10,000 and ordered to pay over $4000 in court costs for not correctly disposing of industrial waste. The m ...
Melbourne restaurant fined $40,000 after worker sustains injury while using dough mixer(Post)A fine of $40,000 has been imposed on a Melbourne eatery after an employee sustained injuries from a dough mixer machine, which was subsequently operated in violation of directives from WorkSafe insp ...
WorkSafe to visit workplaces during national safe work month (Post)WorkSafe Victoria will visit workplaces across the State during this year’s National Safe Work Month to raise awareness of workplace health and safety.Workplace mental health, hazardous manual tasks, ...
Safe Work NSW urged to ramp up workplace inspections(Post)New South Wales Work Health and Safety Minister Sophie Cotsis calls on the state’s workplace health and safety regulator to step up efforts to protect workers amid a rise in injuries and fatalities.
SafeWork SA wraps up falls awareness campaign(Post)Safework Australia says only one notifiable serious injury associated with a fall was reported during their ‘April No-Falls’ safety campaign.The campaign was launched on 31 March 2022 and aimed to ra ...
Living up to our promise to make your life easier (Post)Last year we ran a survey to find out what additional products and services we could provide to make our customers lives easier.Overwhelmingly, the top two responses were to provide Health and Safety ...
Thursday 18th March 2021(Post)Department of Defence fined after worker critically injured. The Department of Defence pleaded guilty in the Townsville Magistrates Court to failing in its duties under the Commonwealth Work Hea ...
Safe Work Australia releases updates to the model WHS regulations(Post)Safe Work Australia has announced changes to the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act and Regulations, after receiving approval from WHS ministers. According to the updated WHS Act, the obligation ...
Regulator halts operations at Central Queensland coal mine following fatal incident(Post)Queensland's mine safety watchdog has ordered a suspension of heavy vehicle operations at a Bowen Basin coal mine following the death of a worker.Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ) was inf ...
Near miss incident underscores the risks posed by unsecured lifting jibs(Post)The potential hazards associated with the use of unsecured lifting jibs on forklifts have been brought to attention following a recent near miss incident in South Australia.According to SafeWork SA, ...
Transport company sentenced over truckie death at Yarraville depot(Post)A transport company has been fined $320,000 for workplace health and safety offences after a truck driver was killed by a B-double nearly three years ago.The truck driver was standing on a pile of wo ...
