Tag: Occupational Health and Safety

Company fined over outback rigger's death

September 2, 2010 12:34:00

A company has been fined $140,000 and must compensate the family of a rig worker who died in the outback.[MORE]

Tags: oil-and-gas, community-and-society, death, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, workplace-accidents, occupational-health-and-safety, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, work, australia, sa, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700

Mine operations suspended after fatal accident

September 1, 2010 07:16:00

Operations at the Curragh coal mine in central Queensland have been suspended for 24 hours after a fatal accident yesterday.[MORE]

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, industry, mining, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, workplace-accidents, emergency-incidents, health, occupational-health-and-safety, rural, australia, qld, blackwater-4717

Union raises safety oversight after Tarcutta bypass death

August 31, 2010 14:00:00

A New South Wales union official is questioning whether a safety oversight contributed to a man's death at the Tarcutta bypass worksite.[MORE]

Tags: community-and-society, death, government-and-politics, unions, health, occupational-health-and-safety, australia, nsw, tarcutta-2652

Study to examine link between truckie culture and crashes

August 31, 2010 11:54:00

A Queensland accident research centre is investigating the link between the culture of truck drivers and heavy vehicle crashes. [MORE]

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, industry, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, road-accidents, health, occupational-health-and-safety, road-transport, australia, qld, bundaberg-4670, gin-gin-4671

Caravan park safety revamp could take months

August 31, 2010 10:04:00

It is expected to be months rather than weeks before a popular caravan park in the New South Wales Great Lakes re-opens.[MORE]

Tags: government-and-politics, local-government, health, occupational-health-and-safety, rural, rural-tourism, safety, australia, nsw, hawks-nest-2324

Families raise health concerns at aged care centre

August 31, 2010 07:17:00

The management of a Toowoomba nursing home at the centre of a Department of Health and Ageing investigation has met with the families of residents last night. [MORE]

Tags: community-and-society, aged-care, government-and-politics, public-sector, health, healthcare-facilities, occupational-health-and-safety, carers, australia, qld, toowoomba-4350

Mine safety official warns against slip in standards

August 27, 2010 13:12:00

Queensland's commissioner for mine safety and health says Australia needs to maintain high standards for air quality in coal mines to ensure black lung does not become a problem.[MORE]

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, industry, mining, environment, health, environmental-health, occupational-health-and-safety, rural, australia, qld, longreach-4730, mackay-4740, mount-isa-4825, townsville-4810

Toowoomba nursing home breached health and safety rules

August 27, 2010 08:09:00

A nursing home in Toowoomba in southern Queensland has been hit with sanctions for a serious breach of health and safety.[MORE]

Tags: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-state-issues, public-sector, health, healthcare-facilities, occupational-health-and-safety, older-people, health-policy, health-administration, safety, australia, qld, toowoomba-4350

Power workers fear for their lives: union

August 27, 2010 07:38:00

The Electrical Trades Union says Power and Water employees in the Northern Territory are quitting their jobs out of fear for their lives. [MORE]

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, industry, electricity-energy-and-utilities, government-and-politics, unions, health, occupational-health-and-safety, nt, alice-springs-0870

Darwin port gets new harbour safety system

August 27, 2010 06:16:00

The Darwin Port Corporation says a new ship tracking system is now monitoring movements on Darwin Harbour. [MORE]

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, accidents, maritime-accidents, occupational-health-and-safety, sea-transport, nt, darwin-0800

Worker 'critical' after industrial accident in Brisbane

August 25, 2010 13:31:00

Workplace Health and Safety officers are investigating an industrial accident in Brisbane's CBD.[MORE]

Tags: health, occupational-health-and-safety, australia, qld, brisbane-4000

Deckhand's death 'horrendous', court told

August 19, 2010 14:35:00

A court in SA has heard a deckhand on a shark boat died in the most horrendous circumstances when he was crushed in a revolving net in 2005.[MORE]

Tags: maritime-accidents, workplace-accidents, occupational-health-and-safety, courts-and-trials, fishing-aquaculture, sa, port-lincoln-5606

Hunter Valley safety experts to brief Chinese mining officials

August 19, 2010 13:37:00

Chinese mining officials have enlisted the help of Hunter Valley safety experts to improve China's horror mine safety record.[MORE]

Tags: health, occupational-health-and-safety, rural, mining, newcastle-2300, china

Bus driver death conviction thrown out

August 19, 2010 11:41:00

Bus company Southlink has won an appeal in the Industrial Court against a conviction over the death of a driver in Adelaide's north in 2005.[MORE]

Tags: occupational-health-and-safety, courts-and-trials, sa, elizabeth-5112

Festival Centre needs safety upgrade: MFS

August 17, 2010 15:03:00

The Metropolitan Fire Service says the Adelaide Festival Centre is safe for the public, but safety standards need to be upgraded.[MORE]

Tags: theatre, industrial-fires, occupational-health-and-safety, safety, sa, adelaide-5000

Safety upgrade promised for rail bridges

August 16, 2010 12:17:00

The Queensland Government says it will spend $1 million upgrading safety measures around low-level rail bridges in the south-east. [MORE]

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, industry, transport, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, occupational-health-and-safety, rail-transport, road-transport, safety, australia, qld, brisbane-4000

BP to pay $50m fine for deadly 2005 blast

August 13, 2010 06:05:00

BP has agreed to pay a record $US50.6 million ($56.5 million) fine related to a deadly 2005 blast at its Texas City refinery and spend $500 million on safety improvements.[MORE]

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, occupational-health-and-safety, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, united-states

First schools to get gas heaters replaced

August 12, 2010 08:43:00

Blackheath, Orange and Wallerawang public schools will among the first in New South Wales to have their unflued gas heaters replaced.[MORE]

Tags: community-and-society, education, schools, health, occupational-health-and-safety, australia, nsw, blackheath-2785, orange-2800

Residents lobby against hospital closure

August 11, 2010 14:13:00

A campaign is being set up to fight controversial plans to close the Gulgong Hospital following the discovery of asbestos.[MORE]

Tags: health, healthcare-facilities, occupational-health-and-safety, asbestos, nsw, gulgong-2852, mudgee-2850

Union warns of train danger after near miss

July 31, 2010 11:10:00

The Electrical Trades Union says the emergency communications system on Melbourne's rail network is dangerously inadequate.[MORE]

Tags: occupational-health-and-safety, rail-transport, melbourne-3000

Transport union flags fatigue law concerns

July 27, 2010 12:48:00

Truck drivers could automatically lose demerit points for breaching new national fatigue laws in a major shake-up of the transport industry.[MORE]

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, industry, government-and-politics, unions, occupational-health-and-safety, rail-transport, air-transport, road-transport, australia, nsw

Site safety now desal priority, says union

July 27, 2010 12:31:00

The construction union says some workers have decided never to return to the Adelaide desalination plant building site.[MORE]

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, workplace-accidents, unions, occupational-health-and-safety, work, safety, sa, adelaide-5000, lonsdale-5160, osullivan-beach-5166

Court told company lacked remorse over fatal explosion

July 26, 2010 12:54:00

A court is told an explosives factory in the mid-north of SA was a 'ticking time-bomb' because of poorly-maintained equipment.[MORE]

Tags: accidents, workplace-accidents, occupational-health-and-safety, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, work, australia, sa, adelaide-5000, gladstone-5473, port-pirie-5540

Prison nurses not safe from attacks: union

July 26, 2010 08:00:00

The Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) will meet with management from the Townsville Correctional Centre in the state's north in the coming weeks over a number of violent attacks on health staff.[MORE]

Tags: unions, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, occupational-health-and-safety, crime, prisons-and-punishment, assault, qld, townsville-4810

Scrap dealer fined over worker's burns

July 23, 2010 08:16:00

A former scrap metal dealer has been fined $12,000 over an explosion in 2007 which left an employee with burns.[MORE]

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, workplace-accidents, occupational-health-and-safety, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, work, sa, adelaide-5000, burton-5110