A 26-year-old warehouse worker has been critically injured after he was struck by a falling container at a site in Seven Hills in Sydney this morning. The incident occurred at around
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Hi-vis shirt results in burns for WA worker
An emergency medicine specialist as spoken out to the editor of the Medical Journal of Australia after she treated a man for first-degree burns caused by a high-vis workwear shirt.
Youngest case of silicosis recorded in Australia
An Australian tradesman from the Gold Coast has become the youngest person to be diagnosed with silicosis, a fatal lung disease known as the ‘new asbestos’. Connor Downes, 22, has
Asbestos-containing material spilled in road accident in Sydney
Commuters were stuck in traffic that stretched for more than 10 kilometres last night after a truck spilled asbestos-containing materials. The incident occurred around 4pm on Sydney’s M2 Motorway near
SafeWork blitz reveals almost half of NSW scaffolding unsafe
SafeWork NSW has conducted a blitz on scaffolding across 700 construction sites in NSW, after the government committed to putting the industry ‘on notice’. Approximately 44 per cent of the
