Industry News
Carcinogens in the workplace
A series of reports exploring the likelihood of worker exposure to a number of carcinogens in the construction, agriculture and manufacturing industries is now available. [ + ]
Awards to highlight manual handling innovations
If you've got an innovation to share that helps to prevent manual handling injuries in the workplace, there's still time to enter the 2016 WorkSafe Victoria Awards. [ + ]
Is the air we breathe indoors more important than outside air quality?
Doing the 'samba' indoors for your health at work — but not in the way that you think. [ + ]
Control Logic partners with CSE Uniserve
Control Logic has announced it has been appointed a channel partner in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia for industrial equipment supplier CSE Uniserve. [ + ]
Call for study participation on quad bike safety
If you ride a quad bike for your job then you're needed in a UNSW study looking at quad bike safety in the workplace. [ + ]
Warning on falsified high risk work licences
WorkSafe WA has issued a warning to businesses to carefully check high risk work licences after being alerted to a falsified licence holder. [ + ]
Boosting Victoria's workplace anti-bullying agenda
Training sessions on bullying and its effects for young workers aged 16–24 will look at driving awareness and change, thanks to a dynamic new partnership. [ + ]
Climate change endangering Australia’s industrial assets
Climate change is making storms like the one that has wreaked havoc on Sydney this week more damaging, risking industrial, road, rail and other infrastructure assets. [ + ]
Fonterra wins top New Zealand health and safety awards
Dairy giant Fonterra has taken out top honours at this year's New Zealand health and safety awards with initiatives that represented 'beyond compliance' thinking. [ + ]
Workers comp fraud verdict
A NSW truck driver has been found guilty of workers compensation fraud and has been ordered to repay back a large sum of unentitled benefits, among other conditions. [ + ]
The impact of silence and compassion fatigue — researched in hospitals
Leading researchers at the University of Sydney Business School have embarked on two major studies into the effects of silence and compassion fatigue on patient care and health outcomes in our hospitals. [ + ]
Call for public comment on WA's workplace safety regulations
Western Australians are being given the opportunity to contribute to the state's future workplace safety and health system by submitting comment on the model Work Health and Safety Regulations. [ + ]
Learn how to reduce brain-centred hazards in the workplace
Hear from Dr Susan Koen about a number of brain-centred hazards — discovered using applied neuroscience — affecting workplace safety in a free one-hour webinar on 28 June. [ + ]
Winners of Good Design awards announced
Makinex has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Safe Work Australia Award for Good Design for safety in construction and innovation. [ + ]
Revised electrical safety code
Revised every five years, a new edition of the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) will be available this August. [ + ]
