Work Health and Safety Ministers across Australia will strengthen workplace exposure standards (WES) for welding fumes, creating a new statutory maximum upper limit for the concentration of total welding
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Bluescope in move to recognise TruckSafe AMCAS accreditation
Steel company moves to recognise Trucksafe, AMCAS accreditation in supply chain, to avoid audit duplication
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Industry voices unite for COVID-19 safety statement
Building and construction industry employers and unions unite on COVID-19 safety message
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Victoria escalates dangerous goods crackdown
Campaign focuses on reporting and penalising ‘dodgy operators’
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On-site cancer screening
Incolink is offering construction workers health checks on-site, including screening for prostate cancer, reports Fabian Cotter
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New standards to boost forklift safety
Industry buy-in for effort to adopt new international standards
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SA eyes scissor lift regulation
The death of a construction worker in Adelaide has prompted the coroner’s court of South Australia to recommend that people on scissor lifts should be monitored at all times by a ‘spotter’ below
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Cancer Council highlights risks of diesel exposure
The Cancer Council Australia is calling for greater awareness following new estimates showing around 130 Australian workers are diagnosed with lung cancer each year as a result of work-based exposure to diesel fumes.
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More inspectors for WorkSafe Vic
Seventeen recruits have graduated as WorkSafe Victoria Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) inspectors this month.
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Rental and hire industry in Worksafe WA’s sights
WorkSafe WA has begun a proactive inspection program to look at safety issues in the goods and equipment rental and hire industry, including the safe movement of forklifts and the condition of loading docks.
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