Treatment approval for injured workers has been reduced to approximately four days for employees participating in a new icare Medical Support Panel (MSP) pilot in NSW. [ + ]

Safe Work Australia (SWA) is currently reviewing exposure standards to ensure they are based on the highest quality evidence and supported by a rigorous, scientific approach. [ + ]

Male afternoon shiftworkers are twice as likely to feel tired, which could put them at greater risk for accidents, errors and stress, according to the results of a US-based study. [ + ]

Researchers at Curtin University have developed a free app that aims to map the prevalence of asbestos in homes across Western Australia and help home renovators identify potentially deadly risk. [ + ]

WorkSafe Victoria is investigating the cause of a scaffold collapse at a demolition site in North Melbourne this morning (3 July). [ + ]

Educating the motoring public on how to drive safely with heavy vehicles is one of the recommendations from the peak body Road Freight NSW at the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee inquiring into road safety in Australia. [ + ]

Workers in the NSW mining and extractives industry are advised that the Nautitech (NTMS) RapidSense Exia methane gas detection unit has been identified by the Resources Regulator as using a different housing to the unit that was tested and design registered. [ + ]

Researchers at the University of Southampton have been analysing the risk of workplace injury arising from common health conditions treated by taking prescribed medication. [ + ]

Two agricultural workers have been killed in separate incidents in country Victoria, according to a WorkSafe Victoria report. [ + ]