An employer's failure to ensure its safety documents covered all of its operations, and not just its "main game", contributed to a young worker's death, a coroner has found.
A national employer has increased hazard and incident reporting, improved communication between employees and leaders and reduced its lost-time injury frequency rate under a three-year safety and wellbeing strategic plan.
A coronial inquiry into the 2012 fire and crane collapse at the University of Technology Sydney has outlined what a contractor has done to prevent a similar incident occurring, and commended Lend Lease's evacuation of the site.
Safe Work Australia's new deemed diseases report, which is designed to inform workers' comp laws and prevention strategies, includes a number of diseases that aren't included in the work-related diseases lists currently used in the states and territories.
The average number of days lost to a serious workers' comp claim in the construction industry has increased by nearly 40 per cent to more than six weeks since the early 2000s, according to one of two new Safe Work Australia reports.
Employers that exposed workers to asbestos in the past could be faced with a new raft of damages claims, after French researchers found the hazardous substance causes a range of digestive cancers.
Both unions and a ministerial advisory panel have raised concerns over the sluggish development of Western Australia's mirror WHS laws, while a new report has identified the three greatest hazards faced by the State's mine workers.
