Industry News
One eye on safety
A Sydney company which specialises in iris recognition technology that provides security identity checks more accurate than DNA has taken out the honours in the annual Australian Technology Showcase (ATS) Patrons' Award.
[ + ]Yoga a health hazard
Yoga exponents are being caught out by the activity's relaxing and low impact image with more than one in four injured during sessions.
[ + ]Spinal injury from workplace incident
Tieman Industries has been fined $275,000 by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission sitting in Court Session following a workplace incident that led to the permanent disability of a worker.
[ + ]Sea Mine safety interest
The US, Denmark and Singapore are interested in buying new Australian technology which allows the safe removal of hazardous sea mines.
[ + ]Integral Energy fined $150,000 after woodchipping injury
Integral Energy has been fined a total of $150,000 by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission sitting in court session following serious injury to a worker using a woodchipping machine.
[ + ]Boral guilty after road worker's death
Boral Construction Materials has been fined $200,000 by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission sitting in Court Session following the death of a road worker near Goulburn in 1999.
[ + ]WorkCover blitz on falls from road tankers
WorkCover NSW chief executive officer, Jon Blackwell said that WorkCover is continuing its efforts to keep truck drivers safe with its latest compliance blitz on falls from heavy vehicles.
[ + ]Scientists develop a fireproof plastic
Known as a ceramifiable polymer, it behaves like an ordinary plastic at room temperature but the high temperatures experienced during a fire cause it to harden into a type of ceramic, allowing wiring to be protected from the flames.
[ + ]Mine inquest
A NSW coroner's jury has recommended safety measures at the Perilya Broken Hill mine, in western NSW, after an inquest into the death of an employee underground.
[ + ]Hospitals Sick with errors
Hundreds of serious mistakes occurred in NSW hospitals over the past year, at least 128 of them resulting in death, the NSW government has admitted in a recent report.
[ + ]Risk was forseeable
A Sydney manufacturer has been fined $208,000 by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission sitting in Court Session following the death of a young worker at its Revesby factory in 2001.
[ + ]Public consultation for dangerous goods changes
NSW Commerce Minister, John Della Bosca has called for public comment on proposed new regulations for the safe management and control of explosives and other dangerous goods. "The new requirements are designed to allay public concern about the safety and security of dangerous goods facilities in NSW, as well as ensure a nationally consistent approach," said Della Bosca.
[ + ]JCU leads way in disaster response
The horror of the terrorist attack on the Russian school children of Besian last year has given Australia's first post-graduate course in disaster health management a tragic focus, Associate Professor Peter Leggat said recently.
[ + ]Safety Institute of Australia blasts new OH&S Act
Australian safety professionals have branded the new Victorian Occupational Health and Safety Act as bureaucratic, unscientific and unlikely to be any more effective than the legislation it replaces.
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