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SafeWork SA recently issued a safety alert following a surge in notices for safety breaches associated with machine guarding. In the first four weeks of the 2024/25 financial year SafeWork SA issued 29 notices for this type of offence compared to 120 during the entire previous financial year.
SafeWork SA recently issued a safety alert warning business owners in the agriculture sector about the dangers of working in confined spaces following the recent death of a farmer in a grain bin.
WorkSafe Victoria’s silica field team visited 52 industry sites in the past month – issuing 25 compliance notices and seizing more than 65 samples of suspected engineered stone, as well as products branded as porcelain and sintered stone, to test for silica and resin content.
Emergency service personnel and other professionals who are responsible for responding to incidents on high-speed roads experience higher fatality and incident rates, and also suffer from higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder compared to the general population.
While work-related incidents can have a significant impact on workers and their employers, there is often a tendency to focus narrowly on immediate causes of incidents at the expense of the bigger picture when it comes to WHS investigations.
NT WorkSafe recently issued a safety alert for electrical workers and residents to exercise caution when accessing meter boxes fitted with older style meters found in homes built before 2014. The alert was issued after Power and Water Service personnel have reported finding a number of heat damaged service fuse holders in meter boxes in territory homes.
Safe Work Australia recently issued a call for feedback on six proposals aimed at improving the high-risk work licensing framework for cranes. The proposals are based on a discussion paper which outlines potential changes
SafeWork NSW recently urged the 81,000 agricultural workers in the state to undertake work the safe way or ‘no way’ approach to work following a significant increase in reported agriculture industry safety incidents. In 2013, there were 149 reported agriculture industry safety incidents in NSW, however, this number more than doubled to 358 incidents in 2022 – an increase of more than 140 per cent.
WorkSafe Victoria recently called on cattle farming businesses to prioritise human safety elements in their operations following a number of recent incidents and fatalities in the agriculture sector.
