A coronial inquest has found that WHS offences "may have been committed" in connection with the death of a worker in a 66-metre fall, after rejecting a regulator's finding that such workers weren't required to hold high-risk work licences.
A leading occupational heat stress consultant has warned that workers in hot conditions are often told to drink tepid fluids to rehydrate, when they should be provided with more palatable chilled options encouraging consumption.
A commission has highlighted the importance of not discouraging workers from reporting safety mistakes, in ordering a major employer to reinstate a worker sacked for isolation breaches.
A worker has become the second entity to be convicted over an incident where a man's face was burnt by fumes and molten material ejected from a machine being cleaned with the wrong agent.
Queensland employers and their OHS managers will need to get their heads around even more new safety legislation, with chain of responsibility and FIFO Bills passing Parliament last night.
Coronial investigations into six chainsaw-related fatalities have found they all could have been prevented by complying with the applicable industry code and Australian Standard, or using PPE.
Any vehicle that a worker uses is a "mobile workplace" with associated risks, but many OHS managers wrongly view vehicles as incidental to workers' core roles, the executive director of the Australasian Fleet Management Association says.
Two critical home office safety hazards are typically overlooked in take-home risk assessments, exposing workers who work from home to the risk of serious injury, the managing director of a WHS services provider says.
