26/6/08 VIC: Workplace Stress in Victoria - Developing a Systems Approach
In recent years we have seen a rise in stress across all spheres of life, particularly in the workplace. Approximately 7.7 million Australians spend one-quarter to one-third of their waking lives at work so it is not surprising that we are seeing workplace stress emerging as a major cause of physical and mental health problems.
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20/6/08 VIC: Fatal Falls. 2 Deaths in 2 Days
WorkSafe has called on Victorian employers and workers to maximise fall prevention safety after the deaths of two men in two days.
A 60-year-old Blackburn South man died in hospital on Wednesday after falling from racking at a Nunawading business on June 3.
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11/6/08 VIC: VIOSH 30 Years of OHS Education
This year sees VIOSH Australia at the University of Ballarat celebrating 30 years of education and research in the occupational health and safety field. We will be celebrating this milestone with a two-day conference which will be held on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th July. We will also be holding a cocktail party and our 30th Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony.
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6 June 08 VIC: Keep tractors a safety target
Dangerous tractors without rollover protection are still to be found on Victorian farms a decade after a push to have them made a thing of the past.
ROPS have been required on most tractors since the 1990s.
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5/6/08 VIC: Food For Thought Campaign
A CAMPAIGN targeting safe manual labour at food manufacturing plants will be conducted next month in a bid to crack down on unsafe work places.
WorkSafe Victoria will visit food manufacturers and processors from 1 July and issue improvement and prohibition notices where occupational health and safetyt issues are identified.
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June 08 ACT: Increase in Inspector visits 08-09
The Attorney General, Mr Simon Corbell MLA, has advised that the ACT Government will be hiring
an additional three occupational health and safety Inspectors as part of the 2008-09 budget.
This funding is part of the Territory’s ongoing commitment to ensuring workplace safety is a priority
for businesses.
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June 08 ACT: Nominations for the annual ACTsafe Awards close July 11.
The awards are held annually and have three major aims:
· to encourage public and private sector workplaces to develop and implement initiatives that will
result in safer and healthier workplaces in the ACT.
· to share learning and ideas, and help the award winning initiatives gain widespread practical
application in workplaces throughout the ACT.
· to publicly acknowledge significant achievements in effective workplace health and safety.
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27/6/08 NSW: The 18th NSW Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar Sydney Olympic Park 13-14 August 2008
The 18th Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar will be held at the Waterview Convention Centre, Sydney Olympic Park, on Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 August 2008.
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26/6/08 NSW: OHS Regulation information seminars for coal sector
Safer workplaces resulting in fewer traumatic injuries, fewer industrial disease cases and reduced costs to business are the objectives of reforms to laws governing the NSW mining industry.
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26/6/08 NSW: HUMAN FACTORS WOLLONGONG FRIDAY JULY 4TH. HALF DAY SEMINAR 'VISION IN THE WORKPLACE'
A half-day seminar for Ergonomics and Human Factors practitioners, Occupational
Health and Safety professionals and other interested professionals.
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30.6.08 NSW: Forests NSW calls on public to observe safety signs
Forests NSW has issued a safety alert appealing to the public to observe forest safety signs associated with harvesting operations within its pine plantations and native forests.
"The safety of our visitors, employees and contractors is paramount to Forests NSW. In a working forest it is critical that all persons observe the requirements of our safety signs," Forests NSW log supply coordinator Tijmen Klootwijk said.
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24/6/08 WA: ThinkSafe less than 20 employees Small Business Strategy.
If you are a small business owner (employ less than 20 full-time employees) and want to make your workplace safe, the ThinkSafe Small Business Assistance Program can help you.
The good news is that the help you get is:
* free;
* easy to obtain;
* takes just three hours of your time; and
* is a simple process with clear and immediate outcomes.
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20/6/08 WA: Worker death at remote community results in $26,000 fine
An Aboriginal corporation has been fined $26,000 after the death of a worker in a mechanical workshop at a remote Aboriginal community.
Mindibungu Aboriginal Corporation pleaded guilty in the Kununurra Magistrates Court this week to failing to provide a safe working environment and, by that failure, causing the death of a worker.
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26/6/08 QLD: VISIONS CONFERENCE 2008 - 16TH ANNUAL OH&S CONFERENCE, CAIRNS 12-14 NOV 08
The Safety Institute of Australia (Queensland/Northern Territory Division) is very proud to announce the 16th Annual Occupational Health and Safety Conference (Visions Conference 2008) to be held at the Cairns International Hotel between 12 and 14 November 2008. A Welcome Function for delegates precedes this on Tuesday 11 November.
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25/6/08 QLD: Fatalities prompt call for manslaughter charges
MANY construction sites across the Gold Coast may be silent this morning as traumatised workers stay home to mourn their two friends killed on Saturday.
Union officials yesterday placed an immediate ban on the controversial swing set scaffolds the men were using on the Broadbeach site at the time of the accident.
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20/6/08 QLD: Worker injured as sugar juice tank fails
An engineering team has been sent to CSR Sugar's Pioneer Mill in North Queensland to work on restoring crushing operations as soon as possible.
CSR Sugar Mills Group executive general manager, Mark Day, says it is too early to determine when full production would resume at the mill.
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27/6/08 SA: HISTORIC INSPECTORS EXCHANGE VISIT NZ - SA
Three inspectors from New Zealand’s Department of Labour have completed an historic exchange visit with South Australia’s OHS agency, SafeWork SA.
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26/6/08 SA: SAFETY WARNING OVER EXPLORATORY DRILLING
SafeWork SA is urging the mining industry to review its safety procedures for exploratory drilling after a worker was injured today on the Yorke Peninsula.
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25/6/08 SA: SAFE WORK AWARDS NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN
Industrial Relations Minister Michael Wright has opened nominations for South Australia’s Safe Work Awards to recognise outstanding achievements in occupational health, safety and welfare.
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24/6/08 SA: DRAFT GLOBAL CODE OF INTEGRITY FOR LABOUR INSPECTION
The development of a Global Code of Integrity for the endorsement of IALI members at the General
Assembly of 2008, is one of the International Association of Labour Inspection’s (IALI) goals for the
years 2005-2008.
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30/6/08 NT: New Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation legislation commences 1 July 2008
On the 1 July 2008, the new Workplace Health and Safety Act and the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act commence. These two Acts replace the Work Health Act. The new Workplace Health and Safety Act extends coverage of occupational health and safety onto mine sites and mining activities.
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26/6/08 TAS: ASBESTOS SEMINAR HOBART JULY
Although asbestos is now essentially banned in Australia, asbestos containing materials have been used throughout industry for many decades and hence there is a large technical, political and legal legacy.
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20/6/08 TAS: Make your Small Business Safer & Healthier: New publication
Make Your Small Business safer and healthier: new publication
As a small business operator facing the day-to-day pressures of running a business, a workplace accident is probably the furthest thing from your mind.
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19/6/08 TAS: WorkCover strategies & objectives 2008-10
WorkCover Tasmania -Stategies and objectives 2008-2010
The strategies and related objectives for 2008–2010 are:
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30/6/08 FED: OH&S Code of Practice 2008
Occupational Health and Safety Code of Practice 2008
The Occupational Health and Safety Code of Practice 2008 (the OHS Code 2008) came into effect on 12 June 2008. It replaces the previous 27 codes of practice.
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26/6/08 NAT: AIOH RADIATION SEMINARS - INVITATION TO SIA MEMBERS Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide Brisbane, Perth, Darwin
Brought to you by The Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists Inc, this seminar will provide an introduction to ionising radiation, the hazards associated with it and their control. Topics will include:
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24/6/08 NAT: AIHW urges caution on 'fattest nation in the world' claims
AIHW urges caution on 'fattest nation in the world' claims
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) today urged caution on recent claims that Australia was the 'fattest nation in the world'.
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23/6/08 NAT: HFESA Professional Development Events July and August
HFESA Professional Development Events July and August
Wollongong – Friday 4th July, half day workshop Vision in the Workplace presented by Jennifer Long, Occupational Optometry Specialist & Certified Professional Ergonomist
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20/6/08 NAT: STEVEDORING TECHNICAL GROUP MEETS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN CANBERRA
The Stevedoring Technical Group met for the first time in Canberra this week. The Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC) agreed at its April meeting to establish the group to develop national material to address safety and health issues on the waterfront.
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13/6/08 NAT: JAZ-ANZ Case Study Engineered Wood Products
Case Study: Engineered Wood Products
Association of Australasia (EWPAA)
Trusted JAS-ANZ Accreditation Benefits Industry Association, its Members, and their Customers
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2/6/08 NAT: Guidelines for Integrating OHS into Industry Training Packages
Training is an important component of good occupational health and safety (OHS) outcomes in the workplace. Formal OHS training can be delivered through an OHS qualification, an OHS unit in a qualification or as an OHS component of a unit.
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4/6/08 NAT: Transport accidents and suicide top causes of injury death among youth
Transport accidents and suicide are the two leading causes of injury death among young people, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
The report, Injury among young Australians, shows that injury as a whole was responsible for two-thirds of all deaths of young people aged 12 to 24 years in 2005, and for one in six hospitalisations.
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