Tag: Occupational Health and Safety
Company fined over outback rigger's death
A company has been fined $140,000 and must compensate the family of a rig worker who died in the outback.[MORE]
Mine operations suspended after fatal accident
Operations at the Curragh coal mine in central Queensland have been suspended for 24 hours after a fatal accident yesterday.[MORE]
Union raises safety oversight after Tarcutta bypass death
A New South Wales union official is questioning whether a safety oversight contributed to a man's death at the Tarcutta bypass worksite.[MORE]
Study to examine link between truckie culture and crashes
A Queensland accident research centre is investigating the link between the culture of truck drivers and heavy vehicle crashes. [MORE]
Caravan park safety revamp could take months
It is expected to be months rather than weeks before a popular caravan park in the New South Wales Great Lakes re-opens.[MORE]
Families raise health concerns at aged care centre
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]
Mine safety official warns against slip in standards
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]
Toowoomba nursing home breached health and safety rules
A nursing home in Toowoomba in southern Queensland has been hit with sanctions for a serious breach of health and safety.[MORE]
Power workers fear for their lives: union
The Electrical Trades Union says Power and Water employees in the Northern Territory are quitting their jobs out of fear for their lives. [MORE]
Darwin port gets new harbour safety system
The Darwin Port Corporation says a new ship tracking system is now monitoring movements on Darwin Harbour. [MORE]
Worker 'critical' after industrial accident in Brisbane
Workplace Health and Safety officers are investigating an industrial accident in Brisbane's CBD.[MORE]
Deckhand's death 'horrendous', court told
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]
Hunter Valley safety experts to brief Chinese mining officials
Chinese mining officials have enlisted the help of Hunter Valley safety experts to improve China's horror mine safety record.[MORE]
Bus driver death conviction thrown out
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]
Festival Centre needs safety upgrade: MFS
The Metropolitan Fire Service says the Adelaide Festival Centre is safe for the public, but safety standards need to be upgraded.[MORE]
Safety upgrade promised for rail bridges
The Queensland Government says it will spend $1 million upgrading safety measures around low-level rail bridges in the south-east. [MORE]
BP to pay $50m fine for deadly 2005 blast
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]
First schools to get gas heaters replaced
Blackheath, Orange and Wallerawang public schools will among the first in New South Wales to have their unflued gas heaters replaced.[MORE]
Residents lobby against hospital closure
A campaign is being set up to fight controversial plans to close the Gulgong Hospital following the discovery of asbestos.[MORE]
Union warns of train danger after near miss
The Electrical Trades Union says the emergency communications system on Melbourne's rail network is dangerously inadequate.[MORE]
Transport union flags fatigue law concerns
Truck drivers could automatically lose demerit points for breaching new national fatigue laws in a major shake-up of the transport industry.[MORE]
Site safety now desal priority, says union
The construction union says some workers have decided never to return to the Adelaide desalination plant building site.[MORE]
Court told company lacked remorse over fatal explosion
A court is told an explosives factory in the mid-north of SA was a 'ticking time-bomb' because of poorly-maintained equipment.[MORE]
Prison nurses not safe from attacks: union
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]
Scrap dealer fined over worker's burns
A former scrap metal dealer has been fined $12,000 over an explosion in 2007 which left an employee with burns.[MORE]
