A worker has been killed at a workplace incident at a quarry northeast of Adelaide today, just after 9am. Emergency services workers attended the site at Truro, including police and

Paramedics were called to a business in Burleigh Heads today around midday, after reports a woman had been injured at the site. On arrival, the emergency services workers treated a

A crane driver from Canberra has avoided jail time over the death of a fellow worker at a site in the nation’s capital in 2016. Michael Watts appeared in the

A primary producer has been killed in a workplace accident in Putururu, New Zealand, south-west of Rotorua, on Sunday. Emergency services attended the scene just before 5pm yesterday after reports

The Transport Workers’ Union has raised concerns over the safety standards within Qantas amid the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that Qantas has allowed the virus to spread throughout the Adelaide airport

Queensland has recorded two critical workplace injuries in one day. The first incident occurred in Brisbane around 4pm when a worker fell more than four metres, suffering serious head injuries.

Sapform Pty Ltd, a Sydney building company, has appeared in court this week to answer charges, after the 2016 workplace death of Iremar DaSilva. The incident occurred at a worksite

The NSW District Court has fined a Sydney concreting company $375,000 over a workplace incident in 2017, during which a worker was fatally struck by an unsecured concrete pump hose.

A 60-year-old man has died after a workplace accident in Bayview, a suburb of Darwin yesterday. It is believed the worker fell from the roof of a worksite building. Emergency

The City of Armadale Council has had a fine increased by $80,000 after WorkSafe appealed the original fine, which related to a 2014 incident in which a member of the

SafeWork Australia has released the following guidelines to inform PCBUs in the event that a contractor or employee is suspected of having COVID-19. Isolate: Remove the person from others. SafeWork

A Victorian engineering company has appeared in the Melbourne County Court over a workplace accident that permanently disabled a worker. The incident occurred at the company’s Bayswater site when gas

Richard Simmons, co-owner of RW & LM Simmons transport company, appeared in the NSW District Court this week in relation to the death of a worker at a mine site

One factor about the global pandemic crisis remains consistent across all areas of society: confusion. There is a mass of mixed messaging with health authorities calling on the public to

A Queensland concreting business and its director have been fined $42,500 in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court after unsafe electrical practises exposed people to the risk of serious injury or death.

A worker at Ballarat’s McCain Foods factory has been transported to hospital after a workplace incident. Emergency services including police, firefighters and ambulance workers were called to the site around

Construction companies, workers, unions, building regulators and workplace health and safety authorities are continuing to wade through the new government restrictions on gathering limitations and there seems to be no

WorkSafe NSW has revealed it is investigating Qantas after it suspended an employee who voiced concerns over the possible exposure to COVID-19 when disinfecting a plane that had returned from

The below statement outlines the enforcement approach that SafeWork NSW will take to ensure compliance with the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017 in

A worker has died recently after a workplace accident in Victoria involving a circular saw, prompting the safety regulator to issue a safety alert. The worker was installing fence posts

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