23 Jul 2024 Safe Work Australia’s research grant recipient, the Centre for Transformative Work Design at Curtin University, has completed their research to explore interventions to manage psychosocial risks in…
Text formatted long On this page Workforce overview Occupational risk profile Conclusions Appendix Resources There are over 131,900 Electricians currently employed in Australia, with more than 50% aged under 35…
The most common mechanism of incident for worker fatalities over the past 10 years (2013 to 2022) was 'vehicle incidents' (38% of all traumatic injury fatalities). This was followed by…
Downloads Download PDF - 385.61 KB The Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2023-2033 sets an ambitious vision for WHS outcomes in Australia. The context in which this Strategy was developed is fundamentally different to…
Want to participate in National Safe Work Month this October? Host a SafeTea talk. Gather your team, get together and have a conversation about work health and safety (WHS) with…
building product company recently entered into an enforceable undertaking with a total expenditure of $852,754 over an incident in which a forklift fatally injured a worker. On 1 February 2021,…
A fast food business in Victoria has been convicted and fined $75,000 after a worker’s ponytail was caught in an unguarded rotisserie machine at a store in Plenty. Souvlaki GR…
A steel fabrication and installation company in Victoria has been convicted and fined $40,000 after continuing to put workers at risk on a Geelong construction site, even after a worker…
A roofing and cladding contractor in South Australia has been prosecuted and fined over the illegal and unlicensed removal of asbestos from a family home on the Fleurieu Peninsula. The…
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland inspectors will begin auditing businesses operating from buildings constructed before 1990 and those likely containing asbestos to ensure compliance with asbestos regulations. The audit, which…