Media Releases - Worksafe helps industry clean up its health and safety act... - 23 November 1995 Leading companies ''disregard occupational health and safety'' - 14 November 1995 Workplace health and safety issue...
Worksafe warns about imported chemicals after Port Botany fire - Worksafe Australia has repeated warnings to importers and manufacturers on packaged xanthates, cause of a fire at Port Botany which was still smouldering today. NICNAS (National Industrial Chemica...
Emerging issues need urgent attention - Emerging workplace health and safety issues, including handling hazardous chemicals and stress, need urgent attention. Mr Riordan felt a clear need existed for more detailed and timely information t...
New workplace death and disease data - indicate catastrophic problem - New statistics show that workplace deaths, diseases and injuries amount to a catastrophic problem, says Joe Riordan, chairman of the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (Worksafe Austra...
Chairman defends workplace watchdog - No evidence exists to support the claim that the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (Worksafe Australia) fails to function properly because it is unwieldy, according to chairman Joe Ri...
Worksafe chairman tells industrial relations convention - Leaving the important question of workplace health and safety to the vagaries of the marketplace would be an unqualified obscenity, the chairman of the National Occupational Health and Safety Commissi...
Workplace health and safety not optional extra - Worksafe - Industry should regard workplace health and safety as an integral part of management, rather than an optional extra, Worksafe Australia's chief executive has stressed. Speaking in Brisbane today, Dr T...
New best practice kit for contract cleaning - Worksafe Australia has taken a major step towards improving occupational health and safety (OHS) in contract cleaning, an industry with an accident incidence nearly three times the rate for all indust...
Guidelines prescribed for training doctors - The National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (Worksafe Australia) has agreed to the development of national guidelines to train doctors in health surveillance. Meeting in Brisbane last wee...
Coming to a computer near you - updated health and safety data - National occupational health and safety (OHS) information is now available on the Internet. The technological transition is aimed at small businesses across Australia. "This is a very grey area, so ...
Worksafe chief tells risk managers - Australia's leading companies pay scant regard to workplace health and safety, Worksafe Australia's chief executive, Dr Ted Emmett, has claimed. "With one notable exception, occupational health and ...