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 »
The Queensland Government has launched a new safety campaign geared towards improving the state’s safety outcomes for industries including construction, manufacturing, health care, and social assistance. Everyone has a responsibility to provide a safe place of work; getting it wrong can have severe emotional, physical, mental, and financial impacts on workers and industry. In 2023,
New state-wide safety campaign Read More »
New statistics have shown Western Australian workers have a much lower chance of being fatally injured at work in 2024 than they did 34 years ago.
WA’s worst workplace hazards revealed Read More »
SafeWork NSW is pleased to announce the graduation of 35 SafeWork Inspectors from the New Inspector Training Program, who are set to play a vital role in ensuring the safety of workers on job sites across the state.
SafeWork NSW welcomes 35 new inspectors Read More »
One of Australia’s biggest and oldest battery manufacturers has been ordered to review its five most dangerous manual tasks after a worker lost a finger in a horror accident.
Battery factory told to improve safety Read More »
The nail gun was fired by a colleague, penetrating the 16-year-old’s skull and brain.
Teenager injured as nail penetrates his skull Read More »
A safe and healthy workplace is essential to maintain the physical and mental wellbeing of all workers.
When it comes to examples of healthy workplaces, it is hard to look past global tech giant Google with its free food, in-house masseurs, nap pods and games rooms.
What does a healthy workplace look like? Read More »
