A company in New South Wales’ Hunter region has been fined $240,000 after a teenage work experience student suffered permanent eye injury after welding for up to five hours. The 15 year old student suffered retinal thermal burns, otherwise known as “flash burns” to both eyes whilst welding on his first morning of work experience.…
A construction worker, who plunged 13 floors down a ventilation shaft on a Perth construction site, was not wearing a safety harness when she fell to her death. A German national, in Australia on a holiday working visa, fell from the 15th floor to the 2nd floor at an East Perth construction site last week.…
By getting involved in National Safe Work Month this October, employees benefit from having a healthier and safer workplace, and businesses can be in the running to win the Workplace Participation Reward worth $5,000. As at the 7th October, 129 Australian workers have been killed at work in 2016. Agriculture, forestry and fishing, Transport, postal…
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 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…
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:…
With the weather today looking pretty miserable, it’s hard to imagine it’s already the second week of Spring. But don’t let that fool you. A local Adelaide snake catcher has already reported of an eastern brown snake being removed from a backyard in Flagstaff Hill, south of Adelaide last week. So it’s probably a timely reminder, to…
A Western Australian worker has pleaded guilty to failing to take reasonable care of the safety of another employee, and has been fined $6,000 plus costs. The fined worker caused serious burns to a fellow worker, after he sprayed him with a highly flammable brake cleaning chemical as part of a prank. The fellow worker…
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…
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…