WORKSAFE Victoria has launched a safety campaign encouraging tradespeople to use the right tool for the job.
29/07/2010 |
WORKCOVER NSW has issued a safety alert about the use of portable ladders after two incidents where painters fell from ladders.
27/05/2010 |
THE OFFICE of Regulatory Services says the ACT will be participating in a major national safety awareness campaign aimed at reducing the risks of working with scaffolding equipment.
27/11/2009 |
CAPITAL Safety Australia has launched its Wind Energy Fall Protection Solutions Range, featuring ExoFit XP Wind Energy Harness and Force2 Wind Energy Rescue Lanyard.
30/10/2009 |
SAFEWORK SA says it is providing information sessions on updates to the national licensing system for operators of high risk plant.
23/10/2009 |
WORKPLACE Standards Tasmania has issued a safety alert regarding the use of work boxes on industrial forklift trucks.
21/10/2009 |
MARTON Nominees and its director and company secretary William Nash have been fined after a disastrous attempted concrete pour.
14/09/2009 |
PRO-VISUAL Publishing says it is distributing its Construction Industry Guide to Site Safety free of charge to Queensland’s builders and construction workers.
17/08/2009 |
THE HEADS of Workplace Safety Authorities (HWSA) is mounting a national campaign to improve scaffolding safety in the construction industry.
21/07/2009 |
INDUSTRIAL Relations Minister Cameron Dick has launched new safety standards for suspended swing-stage scaffolding on high-rise buildings in Queensland.
07/07/2009 |
THE HEADS of Workplace Safety Authorities (HWSA) is implementing a safety campaign for scaffolding in the construction industry.
07/07/2009 |
ALLSCAFF Systems, its company director, Karimbla Construction Services and Pryme Constructions are being charged with safety breaches for a fatal scaffolding accident.
09/06/2009 |
WORKSAFE WA says it will conduct an inspection program of construction sites in the mid-west area of the state during the week starting 8 June 2009.
01/06/2009 |
THE AWU and politicians are calling for BHP’s Western Australian operations to be shut down, after a scaffolding contractor died on 18 March 2009 at its Mt Whaleback mine.
23/03/2009 |
THE NATIONAL Training Information Services (NTIS) has posted up the CPC08 Construction, Plumbing and Services Integrated Framework Training Package.
12/03/2009 |
WORKCOVER NSW has reminded the construction industry to ensure adequate risk assessment and safety control measures are in place when working with suspended scaffolding.
12/03/2009 |
JOHN Holland Rail has been pulled out of the ASCC’s 2008 Safe Work Australia Awards, as it comes under investigation for a worker’s death.
09/03/2009 |
WORKSAFE Victoria says it has issued three safety improvement notices at the Prahran site, after a scaffold collapse on 22 February 2009.
27/02/2009 |
WORKPLACE safety agency Comcare is prosecuting construction company John Holland in the Brisbane Federal Court over a 2008 death of a worker.
05/02/2009 |
A MALAGA-based furniture company has been fined $40,750 over an incident in which a lift truck rolled over and seriously injured two men.
14/11/2008 |