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Building contractors who fail to meet adequate standards need to be penalised. The death of two workers at a construction site on the Dubai-Al Ain Road on Saturday underscores the need for the most stringent safety controls and regulations in the workplace. A scaffolding on the building collapsed, killing two while at least nine other [...]

BC Ferries has received a thumbs-up for significant improvements to its safety practices, in a follow-up report by former auditor general George Morfitt released on Thursday morning. Morfitt was originally commissioned to evaluate the company’s safety practices in 2006, following the sinking of the Queen of the North. His first report issued in 2007 found [...]

Organisations which rely heavily on volunteers are warning they will have to have cut back on services because of changes to health and safety laws around the nation. Under the law changes, volunteers are considered as workers and organisations say it will cost them more money. Latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show [...]

BUSINESSES in Dandenong are being urged to make workplace safety a priority this year. The warning from WorkSafe Victoria comes after 25 people died on the job in Victoria in 2011, including the death of a 52-year-old Melbourne Water lab technician in Bangholme last month. The Endeavour Hills man died after he fell from a [...]

Australian unions have launched a campaign to inform workers about new harmonised occupational health and safety laws. A system of standardised OHS laws came into effect on Sunday in most states and territories. The Victorian and West Australian governments have resisted the move towards uniform system, although the federal government has given them 12 months [...]

THERE WAS A significant rise in the number of people killed by accidents in the workplace last year,  with by far the largest number of accidents happening on farms. New statistics from the Health and Safety Authority show a 15 per cent increase in deaths from workplace injuries, with 55 people killed in 2011 against [...]

The supply chain industry practitioners do not yet have the depth for creating a war for the supply chain talent. A supply chain industry leader will need flexibility and aggressiveness to respond to changing needs of the supply chain industry. The industry leaders are predicting ‘technology’ to play a vital role in the supply chain [...]

THE OWNER OF the country’s biggest pallet-manufacturing business last night expressed confidence that the firm would be able to continue to meet its orders after a fire damaged its warehouse operations. Seán Lehane, managing director of Mid-Cork Pallets which employs 80 people, said the company had been fortunate its manufacturing plant had not been damaged [...]

A forklift driver who died from a head injury after colliding with stacked pallets, was a victim of a “lapse in strict workplace procedure”, according to a coroner’s report. The report has revealed Peter Delamare, 63, died as a result of “accidentally sustaining blunt force head injury from a workplace accident”. The Masterton man worked [...]

MORE people are being hurt in manufacturing and construction than in any other industries, according to injury claim data for registered workplaces in the Whitehorse area.WorkSafe data shows 639 workers in the Whitehorse manufacturing industry made claims, costing more than $14 million over a five-year period to June 30 this year. In the construction industry, [...]