The safety alliance commits WorkCover and Cooma-Monaro Shire Council to develop practical and effective approaches to workplace health and safety and injury management through communication, consultation, cooperation and industry leadership.

Elliotts has announced an exclusive partnership with TechTrade LLC.

WorkCover NSW has issued a safety alert following an incident at a hotel involving a worker who received an electric shock from a chafing dish.

National Safe Work Australia Week, celebrated from 23 to 29 October 2011, is an annual event that encourages all working Australians to get involved in and concentrate on safety in their workplace to reduce death, injury and disease.

The NTC has released a discussion paper titled 'A corporate approach to road safety' which explores how the existing corporate commitment to workplace safety can contribute to achieving Australia’s National Road Safety Strategy targets.

Safe Work Week 2011 will run from 24 to 28 October, to coincide with the national Safe Work Australia Week. The program offers free workshops that are tailored to meet the needs of employers, employees, contractors, health and safety representatives and OHSW professionals.

Over the next month, WorkCover NSW will hold five interactive webinars as part of its ‘Work health and safety - new legislation is coming’ program.

A further 14 synthetic cannabinoids will be illegal in Western Australia from midnight tonight, including two compounds found in the new product ‘Kronic Black Label’, as part of the Western Australian government’s commitment to outlaw the harmful drug.

WorkSafe Victoria has issued two improvement notices to a timber and building materials company following the death of a truck driver at a Campbellfield worksite.

Public comment period for model Work Health and Safety legislation for the mining industry now open.

The deaths of two men in work-related circumstances and a few 'near misses' have prompted WorkSafe to renew calls of the importance of workplace safety.

A construction company and its director have been fined a total of $137,500 and ordered to pay WorkCover’s legal costs after a worker received fatal head and spinal injuries.

A man has been electrocuted and another is suffering life-threatening injuries after the cherry picker they were working in struck overhead powerlines today.

Eight synthetic cannabis-like substances will be classified as prohibited substances throughout Australia from today.

SafeWork SA inspectors will travel to Roxby Downs in the state’s Far North today to investigate an incident which occurred underground yesterday afternoon at BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine.