Cleanaway Operations Pty Ltd has been handed another record work health and safety fine, this time after a worker was injured in a chemical fire during a production trial.
In another study on the health impacts of the September 11 terrorist attacks, researchers have found a high prevalence of peripheral paresthesias - tingling or numbness in the extremities - in workers exposed to toxic dust.
Project designers and principals should have contractual arrangements for testing products for asbestos, and be prepared for increased safety duties and regulatory powers, OHSS lawyer Katherine Morris says in this Q&A with OHS Alert.
A man's employment significantly contributed to him taking up smoking as an impressionable teenager and eventually dying of tongue cancer, a tribunal has ruled in awarding his widow workers' compensation.
A European study has added new evidence to the suspected link between occupational exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields and a motor neuron disease, suggesting it could double a worker's chances of developing the disease.
A number of Australian jurisdictions have taken steps to identify and ban firefighting foams containing perfluorinated chemicals, but the toxic substances are used in thousands of other products, an expert in contaminated work sites has warned.
Post-traumatic stress disorder has been linked to respiratory symptoms persisting in first-responders, workers and community members exposed to dust and fumes during the September 11 World Trade Centre terrorist attacks nearly 16 years ago.
