Over three days from May 16 - 18 in Melbourne, Safety In Action and Materials & Manual Handling will have plenty for the expected 10,000 trade visitors to do and see.

WorkCover inspected 33 cafes and restaurants in the ACT earlier this year revealing several common safety issues and a lack of compliance with elements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1989 and the Dangerous Substance Act 2004.

‘Green cards’ can now be used until 1st September 2006 as proof of induction training in the building industry.

The Australian Safety and Compensation (ASCC) met in Hobart in April 2006 to discuss ways to prevent workplace death, injury and disease; to improve workers’ compensation arrangements, and the rehabilitation and return to work of injured employees.

Although it is recognised by organisations such as WorkCover NSW, that manual handling injuries are a major cause of lost time for workers in NSW, solutions can sometimes be hard to find.

An earthquake strikes a large city, wrecking roads and bridges, stranding rush-hour commuters, trapping office workers inside high-rise buildings.

In a move that has sparked outrage from workers’ unions around the globe, the Mexican government has replaced the national miners’ union leader and frozen the union’s assets.

ACT WorkCover has completed its safety focus campaign targeting electrical safety. The campaign began in January in response to a spate of injury reports received by ACT WorkCover involving electrical shock incidents.

In an interesting twist on the standard workers compensation cases that hit the airwaves, a Sydney woman has been convicted of fraud, and ordered to repay $37,818 for a fraudulent workers compensation claim.

WorkCover NSW is running a series of farm safety field days across the state, NSW Minister for Commerce, John Della Bosca announced recently.

A revised and updated guideline on accident and incident reporting has been released by the Resources Safety Division at the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP) in Western Australia.

A Western Australian engineering company has been fined $40,000 for failing to provide a safe workplace after a 17-year-old employee seriously injured his hand.

After four years of testing and development, electrical safety gear manufacturer Protectelec’s Protex inverter product is now an Australian Standards Approved electrical safety application.

Worker and commuter safety is being question by the Rail, Tram and Bus Union of NSW after a number of City Rail’s train station booking offices have been closed after discovery of asbestos.

A court has fined Transport company Patricks Distribution $9,750 for failing to ensure more than 3600 kg of chemicals transported from its Arndell Park Depot, in Sydney’s West, were probably placarded to warn people dangerous good were on board.