Standards Australia funding will continue at current or increased levels if recommendations from a draft report are followed that suggest it remain Australia’s peak standards development organisation.

The new standard for the safety of machinery has finally been published.

The Victorian State Coroner’s Office has launched an online newsletter featuring details of work-related cases in an effort to prevent further fatalities.

A man has died in hospital 10 months after his forklift tipped and crushed him.

The ASCC has pronounced the recent harmonisation talks on a national strategy for OHS to be “constructiveâ€.

NSW representatives have been directed to wait for a commitment from the ASCC that today’s harmonisation talks will be subject to four principles outlined at the 18 May COAG meeting before joining in the discussions.

NSW representatives have joined today’s meeting of the occupational health and safety working group, according to an announcement by the ASCC just before one o’clock this afternoon.

Prohibition notices stopping some of the work at an Adelaide building site remain in place after three workers were taken to hospital with smoke inhalation on 13 July.

The Automation Business Forum that was to run a day prior to the Manufacturing Technology InFocus exhibition in October has been postponed until 2007.

The annual Automate exhibition will be held for the 18th year running, but for the first time will be presented under the new name Manufacturing Technology InFocus (MTech).

The maximum fines for South Australian corporations convicted of safety breaches are set to triple.

A recruitment drive for 12 new inspectors at WorkCover NSW will start this week, bringing its total force to 313.

Recruiters must push clients to address OHS or risk losing their workforce, according to Bill Scales, chairman of the Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC).

Forklift owners and operators have been warned of the potential safety risks associated with the hiring or buying of equipment with unfamiliar control pedals.

A new group standard was introduced in New Zealand on 1 July.