The AWU has warned that billions of dollars are being pumped into the development of new applications for hazardous nanomaterials without properly investigating the risks to workers and others. Also in this article, regulators have issued health and safety advice and warnings on the use of mobile phones.
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.
Two NSW employers that failed to introduce "straightforward" safety steps for working near powerlines have been fined $150,000 - on the same day they were fined $330,000 over an unrelated incident.
Heavy vehicle amendment Bill passes Queensland Parliament; SWA releases new WHS guides on health monitoring; Western Australian resources sector records first ever fatality-free year; and WorkSafe Victoria investigating fall death.
Designated drop off and pick up zones for pedestrians at work sites are vital to ensuring the safe interaction of pedestrians and vehicles, the NSW Industrial Court has found in fining two employers $330,000 over the death of a worker.
Two Western Australian employers have been ordered to pay more than $80,000 in fines and costs for separate high-risk work breaches, one of which created "a high potential for serious injury or death from electrocution or explosion".
Quad bike manufacturers that claim rollover protection devices are unsafe are failing to learn from the sharp decline in tractor-related deaths since the early 1990s, the Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety has said, on the release of a new injuries report.
Employers that take steps to identify the safest vehicle for a particular task are unlikely, in the majority of cases, to select a quad bike, the Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety has said on the release of a quad-bike-fatality report.
A NSW employer has been fined $250,000, after the Industrial Court found its failure to ensure an operator knew how to secure a stationary vehicle resulted in the death of a newly employed labourer.
