Reporters have called the workplace fatality rates in New Zealand a “horror start”, with ten deaths so far this year, including seven in January. Farming and agriculture are traditionally high-risk
Fine after worker crushed by six-tonne truck
A young New Zealand worker had only been on the job for two days when he was crushed by a six-tonne truck at a mechanics workshop in Cambridge. The operator
Factory fire in Western Sydney spreads black smoke across suburbs
A factory in Fairfield, Western Sydney, has been engulfed in flames and two adjacent buildings have been damaged. Emergency services workers were called to the factory just before 4pm on
SWMS deviations could cost QLD company $4.5 million
Nexus Infrastructure, and two subsidiary infrastructure companies, Acciona and Ferrovial Agroman, are due to face Toowoomba Magistrates Court next week on six workplace safety charges. The charges relate to a
One worker dead, another injured in workplace fall near Esperance
One worker has died and another has been seriously injured after a workplace fall from heights at a Condingup property yesterday. The accident occurred just after 2pm at the rural