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Safety secrets to be revealed
WorkSafe is getting the safety message to Victorian school students through the 3in6 video competition, run by the Victorian Information Technology Teachers Association VITTA Teams of students will have six hours to plan, film, edit and create a three-minute video focused on workplace safety 3in6!
Published Date: 15 Oct 2009
"Now is the time to take action" WorkSafe says after three regional deaths in a week
Now is the time to take action WorkSafe says after three regional deaths in a week. Victoria s work-related regional death toll has risen by three in the past week with a dairy farmer dying at Gorae West in the state s south-west last yesterday.
Published Date: 13 Oct 2009
Reset the safety agenda call after two deaths in two days
An alarming spate of work-related deaths and serious injuries has prompted WorkSafe Victoria to call on businesses and workers to go back-to-basics and take workplace safety more seriously. Two fatalities this week and an incident which left a man in hospital with serious head injuries have led to WorkSafe s call.
Published Date: 08 Oct 2009
Shops, caf s and restaurants the focus of statewide safety push
A statewide inspection campaign of shops, cafés and restaurants begins in November with WorkSafe calling on employers and workers to act now to ensure high safety standards are in Shops, caf s and restaurants the focus of statewide safety push.
Published Date: 08 Oct 2009
Crushed between chipper and truck
WorkSafe is investigating an incident at Warrandyte this afternoon where a man has suffered serious injuries to his head and upper body. He was among a crew removing pine trees and it s thought he was re-positioning a mobile wood chipper on a steep road when it rolled and pinned him between
Published Date: 06 Oct 2009
WorkSafe Awards finalists announced
WorkSafe has unveiled the finalists for the 2009 Work Safe Awards which will be announced at a gala dinner on October 29 at Crown Palladium. year, recognise individuals and organisations that have made significant contributions to improving health and safety in their workplace.
Published Date: 06 Oct 2009
Workplace health & safety in the spotlight
WorkSafe Victoria s wants employers to take more active steps to further reduce the nearly 29,000 workplace injuries reported last financial year. Last year s injury rate was the lowest ever, but with WorkSafe s annual Work Safe Week only weeks awayWorkSafe s Executive Director, Health and Safety, John Merritt, urged employers, supervisors
Published Date: 02 Oct 2009
Richmond organisation up for State safety award
Richmond organisation Berry Street is a finalist in the prestigious WorkSafe Victoria Awards which will be announced on October 29. The Awards recognise individuals and organisations that have made a significant contribution to improving health and safety in their workplace.
Published Date: 02 Oct 2009
Safety on the curriculum
Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE, along with two Health and Safety Committees and a Health and Safety Representative from RMIT University are finalists in the 2009 WorkSafe Victoria Awards which will The Awards recognise individuals and organisations that have made a significant contribution to improving health and safety in their workplace.
Published Date: 02 Oct 2009
Swan Hill business in running for State safety award
Hot on the heels of its success on the ABC s New Inventors program, Swan Hill business, Microw Developments, has been named a finalist in the prestigious WorkSafe Victoria Awards 2009. The WorkSafe Victoria Awards recognise individuals and organisations that have made a significant contribution to improving health and safety in their workplace.
Published Date: 02 Oct 2009
