24th Apr 2014 The workplace safety watchdog is investigating the death of a man at a worksite near Mount Gambier in South Australia’s south east on Wednesday. The 43-year-old is believed to have been electrocuted when a metal section he was lifting onto a shed came into contact with overhead power lines at Yahl. Craig […]
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Miner Dies At Grasstree Mine Near Middlemount
7th May 2014 A miner has collapsed and died at Anglo American’s Grasstree Mine near Middlemount. An Anglo American spokesperson has confirmed that the incident happened yesterday and that operations have ceased while investigations are conducted. Co-workers tried to revive the employee, who was found collapsed underground, before bringing the employee to the surface where […]
WA Henderson crane roll injures worker
By USSA Global on May 22, 2014 in HSE News Australia, Incident Investigation, Incident Investigation perth, Latest News
15th May 2014 WorkSafe is investigating a second accident in three days involving cranes at the Australian Marine Complex, south of Fremantle. A 25-tonne crane toppled over on the Quill Way property just after 7:00am while being turned around. One of the workers was taken to Fremantle Hospital but his injuries are not life-threatening. WorkSafe […]
Feedback wanted on development of NZ HS@W Regs
A discussion document outlining proposals for new health and safety regulations has been released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The discussion paper – Developing regulations to support the new Health and Safety at Work Act – is part of the Government’s Working Safer package of reforms, which aims to reduce New Zealand’s […]
Safe clean-up focus of WorkSafe inspectors’ Coast visit
By USSA Global on May 22, 2014 in HSE News New Zealand, Incident Investigation, Incident Investigation perth, Latest News
1 May 2014 Cyclone Ita, which ravaged the West Coast recently, caused very few injuries and no fatalities. WorkSafe New Zealand says that it is essential the clean-up doesn’t add to the injury list through the use of unsafe practices. WorkSafe’s Assessment Manager for Canterbury and the West Coast, Dave Hulston, says that his team […]
Occ health experts advise WorkSafe NZ
7 May 2014 A group of the country’s leading experts on occupational health have been assembled to advise WorkSafe New Zealand about how to help protect people from work-related illness and disease. An estimated 600-900 New Zealanders die prematurely each year due to work-related illness and disease. That toll is over and above the number […]
NZ rebuild workers put safety first
12 May 2014 More than 350 Canterbury rebuild construction workers are spending the early hours of this morning learning about how to keep themselves and others from being seriously injured or killed while working around excavations. Excavations are a major component of the rebuild work and are one of WorkSafe’s top priority areas in Canterbury. […]
Waikato company fined over worker’s death
9 April 2014 Waikato company Wealleans Groundspread Limited has been fined $33,750 and ordered to pay reparation of $70,000 over the death of a worker in June 2013. Tyler Old was operating a specially adapted truck, which spread fertiliser from a hopper via a chain conveyor, on a dairy farm in Okauia, Matamata. Nobody saw […]
Demolition increase highlights safety risk
16 April 2014 With residential demolitions in Christchurch set to increase between now and December, WorkSafe New Zealand is increasing its site inspections to ensure safety is a top priority. WorkSafe’s Canterbury Rebuild Health and Safety Programme Director, Kathryn Heiler, said today that she is concerned at the high hazard risk associated with demolition work. […]
Piping contractor fined over Onehunga explosion
9 April 2014 Piping contractor, Canadian Pacific Limited, has today been fined $55,250 over a 2011 explosion in an Onehunga water pipe that killed one worker and left another a double amputee. Philomen Gulland died on June 4 2011 and Ian Winson lost both his legs from above the knee in a gas explosion which […]