A truck driver lost his life when a plastic kettle melted and set fire to the cab of his prime mover.

As of 1 July 2009 new laws covering new OHS requirements will come into effect for inductions onto construction sites in Queensland.

A WorkSafe inspection campaign, targeting dusts, fumes and fibres in Western Australia during April has revealed that many employers are either not aware of the hazards in their workplaces or are not taking action to reduce the risks.

The US Department of Labor's OSHA launches regional program to reduce lead exposure in the workplace.

An Adelaide company has been convicted and fined $72,000 over the death of an 18-year-old apprentice who was dragged into an ungaurded rotating machine in 2004.

The Victorian government has worked in harmony with the Dial Before You Dig association to produce new safety guidelines to protect workers from injury and underground assets from damage.

An equipment manufacturer has been convicted and fined $140,000 in a case where a worker was killed while conducting maintenance on the company's equipment because the maintenance instructions it provided were "hopelessly inadequate".

In a follow-up campaign to an inspection program in the manufacturing industry in 2007, safety inspectors around the country will focus on safety inspections in this sector during the months of June and July.

Integrated Transfer Solutions has been appointed Australian distributor for TODO dry breaks for safe fluid and gas transfer applications.

A man has died in hospital two weeks after his clothes were caught in an operating lathe at a factory in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

An Adelaide sawmill company has been convicted and fined over an incident that left a worker with a painful groin injury in 2007.

A WorkSafe inspection program of construction sites in the Mid-West region of WA has revealed generally good standards in occupational safety and health management.

Summer continues to be the most deadly season for NZ workplaces, provisional figures from the Department of Labour show.

An Adelaide company has been convicted and fined in the SA Industrial Relations Court over an incident that left a worker seriously injured after a fall.

A recent announcement by the Deputy Prime Minister that she will work to put in place a system of safe rates for our nation’s truck drivers has been welcomed by the Transport Workers Union.