OHS Professional E-News

Issue 44, 05 October 2010

Make managers jobs depend on safety: General Cosgrove

Organisational leaders should make their subordinate leaders’ jobs depend on helping to build a culture of safety, according to General Peter Cosgrove, former Chief of the Australian Defence Force.

Sue Pilkington

“Incremental improvement” in BHP Billiton’s OHS performance

Despite the deaths of five workers in its global workforce in the last financial year, there has been an “incremental improvement” in BHP Billiton’s safety performance, according to its annual report.

Sue Pilkington

$135,000 fine for home insulation scheme death

A Queensland company behind one of the four fatalities under the Federal Government’s discontinued home insulation scheme was recently fined $135,000.

Sue Pilkington

$44k fine for severe work injury at SA markets

The operator of a produce wholesaler in South Australia has been fined by an industrial magistrate following an incident in which an employee lost several fingers to the moving blades of a fan.

Sue Pilkington

Safety spotlight on DSE after tank explosion

WorkSafe Victoria is demanding safety improvements from the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) after a fuel tank explosion last year left a worker with serious burn injuries.

Sue Pilkington

22 May

VIC Branch: Women's OHS Professionals Networking Breakfast

27 May - 31 May

AIOH Basic Principles of Occupational Hygiene Course

31 May - 2 Jun

Building Safety - Bridging the Gap

13 Jun

Brisbane Regional Meeting

18 Jun - 19 Jun

SIA LTD - Brisbane Conference





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