Date: Friday, 21 April, 2023 - 12:30 Almost two-thirds (65 per cent) of heavy vehicle operators utilise basic safety management systems in their business, according to recent National Heavy Vehicle…
Date: Monday, 24 April, 2023 - 12:45 Safe Work Australia recently released updated guidance for managing the risks of tree work including lopping, pruning, trimming, repairing, maintaining and removing trees…
Food delivery workers are at risk of physical and psychological harm while working. Safe Work Australia has today launched a campaign to increase awareness of the importance of work health…
A worker was using an angle grinder to cut the top section off a 1,000 litre plastic intermediate bulk container (IBC) when chemical vapours ignited causing serious burns. …
SafeWork SA is reminding businesses to ensure adequate guarding is fitted to plant following an incident where a worker became trapped in a moving conveyor. The worker at a manufacturing…
SafeWork SA inspectors will target residential construction sites in the coming months to ensure builders and contractors are managing the risks associated with working at heights. The compliance campaign is…
A local government worker who was accused of breaching safety guidelines, and possibly WHS laws, has failed to overturn his dismissal for operating plant in a reckless manner and showing…
An employee who failed to complete his employer's "working from home" checklist, during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been awarded compensation, with a tribunal ruling his un-ergonomic home office set-up significantly…
One of the most effective ways to improve workplace mental health is to provide managers and leaders with practical strategies to promote and support the mental wellbeing of their staff,…
An organisation's WHS risk manager breached safety laws by failing – over a period of more than three years – to finalise a risk assessment for an infectious disease, a…