Welcome to National Safe Work Month – October 2016

SafeWork SA is encouraging businesses to promote health and safety in the workplace during National Safe Work Month. Held in October each year, Safe Work Month aims to improve awareness of work health and safety, encourage discussion about safety at work and share positive workplace stories from across Australia. One way to do this is to…

Safe Work Australia updates workplace bullying guides

Safe Work Australia has updated two important publications around workplace bullying – their “Guide for preventing and responding to workplace bullying” and “Dealing with workplace bullying – a worker’s guide“. Bullying in the workplace is a risk to worker’s health and safety, and can occur in any type of workplace. Even with anti-discrimination and anti-bullying…

Get involved this National Safe Work Month, SafeWork SA encourages

SafeWork SA are encouraging all South Australians to get involved in helping make their workplaces safe, by participating in National Safe Work Month this October. Every years approximately 250 Australians die from work-related injuries and over 2,000 Australians die from a work-related illness. These tragedies are preventable. Further statistics from National Safe Work Month include:…

Asthmagens in the Workplace

Safe Work Australia has reported on a recent research study showing that 47% of male and 40% of female workers are exposed to one or more asthmagens in their workplace. Asthmagens are substances that is related to the development of asthma symptons. Occupational asthma is an allergic reaction that can affect workers who are exposed…

Massive fine for company showing no remorse

A Melbourne recycling company has been convicted and fined a whopping $800,000. The company was found guilty by a jury of one breach of the 2004 OHS Act in that it failed to provide and maintain safe plant, after one of its employees was crushed to death under a homemade lifting device. The company showed…

Deck Mechanic’s Death in Whyalla

The Industrial Court has fined South Australian ship management company, Inco Ships, $200,000 after the death of a qualified deck mechanic at Whyalla in December 2012. The worker was cleaning built-up iron ore from a conveyor inside the ship, when they received fatal crush injuries. It was alleged that the company had not installed guards…