Australian Unions are calling for new national safety rules that require employers to stop work or modify duties when temperatures reach dangerous levels, warning that increasingly frequent heatwaves driven by climate change now pose a major workplace health and safety threat.
Extreme heat is killing workers: Unions urge national rules to save lives Read More »
I am delighted to introduce the first edition of Safe Work Australia’s new publication, Evidence Matters. Evidence certainly does matter, particularly when we are talking about improving workplace safety.
Message from the Chief Executive Officer, Safe Work Australia – Marie Boland Read More »
Purpose
The purpose of this safety alert is to report on a vehicle hoist failure and to provide guidance on the installation and maintenance of post-installed anchors, used to anchor vehicle hoists onto concrete slabs.
Vehicle hoist anchor failure Read More »
Across Australia, delivery work has become part of everyday life. Whether it’s a pizza, a parcel, or the weekly grocery run, thousands of riders and drivers keep things moving.
New Rules for Delivery Workers Read More »
An asphalt company has been fined $80,000 after an employee died when he was run over by a colleague driving a skid steer loader at the workplace, after hours.
Company fined after worker mows down colleague Read More »
“Curiosity killed the cat” is a proverb “used to warn of the dangers of unnecessary investigation or experimentation” (Wikipedia) or is an idiom “said to warn someone not to ask too many questions about something” (Cambridge online dictionary). Yet for the modern officer, curiosity is a must, as it aligns with their personal WHS due diligence obligation.
Curiosity may kill the cat, but is indispensable for workplace health and safety 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 »
The NSW Minns Labor Government will continue its mission to ensure workers have strong laws and a tough regulator on the beat by introducing a bill into the NSW Parliament to establish SafeWork NSW as a standalone regulator.
Minns Labor Government to establish SafeWork NSW as a standalone regulator 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 »
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 »
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 Victoria has published new guidance designed to help manufacturers avoid forklift accidents in the workplace – including one shocking stat that should make the industry sit up and take notice.
The shocking new statistic on forklift safety that every manufacturer should know Read More »
We’ve all experienced it – when someone makes an observation that encapsulates what we felt we knew all along but had yet to (at least so eloquently) articulate, or that would, so we charitably tell ourselves, have been obvious to us had we given the matter any thought.
The Swiss Cheese Model of incident causation Read More »
