Employer fined $120k after keyless entry sparks fatal van explosion; Transport company and consignor both fined for dangerous goods breaches; and ACT height safety campaign to focus on ladders and scaffolding.
Regulator explains how to reduce EWP and slip risks; Lack of support for ACT injury-reduction plan a "setback" for workers; New national maritime safety regulator to operate from July; and FWC appoints new vice presidents.
Middle managers will be put through "culture change" training programs under a plan to improve safety in the construction sector, according to the Master Builders Association's official response to the ACT construction-industry inquiry.
A worker who wasn't provided with personal protective equipment while using a hand tool has been awarded more than $850,000 in damages, after he sustained a permanent eye injury.
ACT employers are likely to pay higher workers' comp levies, under a Government plan to support all 28 recommendations of the recent construction industry inquiry, and to reduce the burden to taxpayers of administering the OHS and workers' comp schemes.
Right of entry provisions to change; Queensland unions demand answers over delay of workers' comp review; NSW worker fatally struck by reversing loader; ACT offers funds for workplace health and wellbeing initiatives; and South Australian Return to Work Awards open.
In this article, OHS Alert highlights recent work health and safety developments - as well as new publications and upcoming seminars - from all Australian jurisdictions.
The ACT Work Safety Commissioner has warned that safety blitzes will become the norm, and called for employers to play a bigger role in improving OHS cultures, after inspectors issued 120 notices at construction sites on Wednesday.
An injured ACT worker, who was prosecuted for misusing a company travel card and claimed the process caused her stress, has failed to regain her workers' compensation benefits.
