A WorkSafe investigation has been launched following a chlorine gas leak at the Collie Mineworkers Memorial Pool that resulted in nine nearby residents being evacuated from their homes and one woman being sent to hospital.
Chlorine gas leak at Collie swimming pool prompts WorkSafe investigation Read More »
Media release A timber processing company has been fined $385,000 (and ordered to pay $5976.70 in costs) after a worker was seriously injured in 2022.
Timber company fined $385,000 over worker injury Read More »
While transport, construction and agriculture were the deadliest sectors in 2024, workplace fatalities were spread across more than half of all industries and involved dozens of occupations.
Workplace Tragedy Does Not Discriminate Read More »
Old equipment repurposed by businesses must be safe to use, WorkSafe New Zealand says, following sentencing of a Rotorua company whose modified crane became a weapon that changed the life of a teenage contractor.
Dodgy Crane Safety Inflicts Misery For Teen Worker Read More »
The poets and philosophers are right: life is fragile, so take care of yourself. This particularly applies to pilots who hold the lives of others literally in their hands.
Without warning – pilot incapacitation Read More »
A laundry within an aged care facility uses an ozone generator to clean clothes and sheets in cold water, killing bacteria and viruses.
Victorian employers faced serious legal and financial consequences for putting workers at risk last year, with WorkSafe completing 119 successful health and safety prosecutions and enforceable undertakings.
Employers cop $13.3 million for safety breaches in 2024 Read More »
A prominent horseracing identity’s company has been charged with workplace health and safety breaches over a car crash that seriously injured five people and killed four horses.
Horse trainer’s company charged over deadly crash Read More »
The workers’ compensation industry is often seen through a lens of financial transactions, regulatory compliance, and cost containment.
Empathy in Action: Returning Workers to Health and Meaningful Work Read More »
The County Court of Victoria recently dealt with a case where a worker sought compensation under the Transport Accident Act 1986. She argued that injuries from a bus incident impacted her ability to work and her future employment prospects.
Worker’s injury while commuting fails compensation test Read More »
In the retail and wholesale industry, employees in their first year on the job account for more than a third of all work-related injuries, a recent analysis shows.
Which retail and wholesale workers are most at risk of injury? Read More »
WorkSafe has charged a Gippsland irrigation company after a worker was seriously injured when he was struck by a telehandler at a Yarram dairy farm.
Charges after telehandler incident causes brain injury Read More »
Manufacturing company Cryoquip was recently sentenced after pleading guilty to two charges of failing to provide a safe workplace in the Dandenong Magistrates Court.
Worker’s ‘gruesome’ hand injury results in $50k fine for company Read More »
With most organisations right in the middle of their Christmas get-togethers, many may realise that injuries at end-of-year parties do happen – but whose fault is it?
An industrial plastics manufacturer has been fined $40,000 after a worker suffered life-threatening crush injuries when his head was caught in machinery.
Manufacturer fined after worker’s head crushed Read More »
