OHS Professional E-News

Issue 42, 21 September 2010

Walking the OHS talk at WesTrac

While organisations can have “best practice” safety systems, their safety cultures can be compromised unless all leaders in the business, from the CEO to the tradesperson supervising apprentices, visibly promote safety leadership, according to Michael Brack, HSE and quality manager for WesTrac.

Sue Pilkington

DFO in workers’ compensation audit

Inspectors from WorkSafe ACT are visiting stores at Canberra’s DFO retail centre as part of an audit of employer compliance with responsibilities under the Workers Compensation Act 1951.

Sue Pilkington

Aldi charged over late workers’ compensation claims

WorkSafe Victoria is urging employers to ensure workers compensation claims are lodged within the required period, after Aldi was recently charged with 33 late lodgment claims and one charge of failing to prepare a return to work plan.

Sue Pilkington

Warning over electrical hazard from neutral conductors

WorkCover NSW recently issued a safety alert following a serious incident in which an electrician sustained an electric shock after cutting into an isolated power circuit cable that became energised via a neutral backfeed on an electrical installation.

Sue Pilkington

Worker dies after 18 metre fall

A 48 year-old man recently died after falling approximately 18 metres from a boom lift at a Wheelers Hill primary school construction site in Victoria.

Sue Pilkington

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