A Western Australian worker has been left in a critical condition in hospital after a workplace incident which crushed his leg. The incident occurred after a pre-work inspection of the

WorkSafe New South Wales has issued a safety alert after a worker was recently injured while conducting arc welding work. The worker was changing a welding rod as part of

A worksite in Canberra has been shut down by the safety regulator after a section of the project collapsed in on itself during a concrete pour. A section of scaffolding

The below is an update from SafeWork NSW to ensure compliance with WHS legislation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are links for further information at the bottom of

Several separate incidents across Queensland have been reported over the last two months, prompting the WHS regulator to issue an alert. The incidents included an accident where a truck driver

The United States Occupational Health and Safety Organisation have advised that workers with a history of industrial respiratory illness, such as silicosis or lung cancer are some of the at-risk

A worker has been killed after being crushed under a boiler at a scrap metal facility in Christchurch. Emergency services were called to Resource Recycling Technologies on Monday just after

A worker has died at a dairy farm in Mooroopna, two hours north of Melbourne. The worker was understood to be the son of the operators of the dairy farm

A Penrith metal tubing manufacturer has faced court over an accident in which a worker was seriously injured loading steel coils into machinery. Trans Vent Spiral Tubing was charged with

An edge protection company in Queensland has been fined $50,000 for failing to comply with its primary safety duty under WHS legislation. The business installs and provisions edge protection so

A construction site in London has been the focus of a Health and Safety Executive investigation after it was revealed the site’s manager and company director operated the site with

New safety legislation set to come into effect this year is likely to see quad bike manufacturers exit the Australian market. The new laws mean that all quad bikes must

WorkSafe Victoria has confirmed it is investigating two separate workplace fatalities from Monday the 16th of March. In Cobblebank, west of Melbourne, a man in his fifties died after the

As many employers seek to minimise risk and allow more employees to work from home, or making plans to allow them to work from home, questions have been asked about

New research released this week indicates that many Australian businesses aren’t meeting WHS responsibilities. A survey, conducted by WHS audit and training organisation SAI Global, showed that 52% of employers

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

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

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 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

A worker at a fertiliser plant in Narangba, north of Brisbane, has died after being trapped in a conveyer belt at the workplace. Emergency services, including specialist fire and rescue

The Australian Department of Defence has been fined $300,000 over a breach of section 32 of the Workplace Health and Safety Act, relating to an incident in 2016 where a

A worker has died in the Western Australian goldfields after being crushed in a workplace accident. Monadelphous, an engineering company, confirmed that the accident took place at its workshop support

Both a construction company and its director have been convicted and are facing more than $200,000 in fines over an incident in 2016, which saw a building collapse due to

Northern Territory WorkSafe has handed down a $1.5 million fine over a serious incident at a cattle station near Alice Springs after two workers fell from a man cage lifted

A worker has died outside of Point Cook, south-west of Melbourne, after a workplace incident on Wednesday 4 of March. It is understood that the worker died after being struck

SafeWork NSW has issued Qantas with an improvement notice after an inspector found the airline’s cleaning practices could be putting workers and passengers at risk due to the “inadequate system

Wholesale bakery, Wild Breads, has been sentenced and fined over an incident at its Darra factory in 2017 whereby a maintenance worker was injured in commercial baking machinery. On November

B&J Industries, a cleaning chemical manufacturer, has seen its director fined $40,000 over a workplace incident which resulted in permanent scarring on a worker after acid was splashed onto his

A worker became trapped while completing trench work in New Jersey last week. Construction workers were replacing water mains to a housing development behind a shopping centre. Around 9:30am, the

The former director of a UK construction company has been handed a suspended prison sentence, after unsafe work from heights and failing to comply with prohibition notices. The case heard

A worker has been seriously injured after a workplace accident in Sydney’s Greenacre yesterday when close to 300kg of glass fell on him. The exact circumstances surrounding the issue are

A manufacturer of health supplements in Dandenong South, Melbourne, has been handed down a fine of $40,000 – plus costs – over a workplace incident from 2018 that crushed a

A Queensland fencing contractor has been fined $25,000 over an incident that occurred in 2017 when a worker had three of her fingers crushed by a hydraulic post driver. Glenn