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Man crushed between two trucks - follows fatality and explosion
A 50-year-old man is in hospital after a truck and trailer rolled backwards for 10 metres and crushed him against another truck at Mickleham today. The man was using a lever at the rear of a tip truck to release bitumen for a private driveway in Mountain View Lane when the incident happened just after noon.
Published Date: 03 Sep 2009
Sign Up Now For Work Safe Week 2009
WorkSafe Victoria s annual Work Safe Week is back with another huge program of seminars and events aimed at helping Victorian businesses get up-to-date with the latest information on Running from 26-30 October, Work Safe Week encourages people to Learn the latest and stay up to date by attending one or more of the 100 free and practical
Published Date: 03 Sep 2009
Nearly $14m to fix injured Wangaratta workers
Wangaratta begins next week a little safer after the recent Safe towns campaign which resulted in 127 visits to local businesses by WorkSafe. Safety inspectors issued 148 improvement notices during the week-long campaign which ended on 21 August.
Published Date: 28 Aug 2009
Oakleigh targeted by WorkSafe campaign
Small businesses in Oakleigh have a week to focus on health and safety ahead of a dynamic inspection campaign in the area from 7 11 September. Oakleigh is the next Melbourne suburb to take part in WorkSafe s Safer Work Zones campaign as part of a strategic effort to reduce workplaces injuries and deaths in small
Published Date: 28 Aug 2009
Like OHS, gravity is a law too
A fundamental safety flaw failing to install temporary bracing led to the collapse of the steel frame for a Laverton warehouse during strong winds in December 2006. Eighty tonnes of steel framing for the warehouse and associated offices collapsed leaving the site in Cyanamid St, Laverton.
Published Date: 21 Aug 2009
Another apprentice hurt this time in Gippsland
A second Victorian apprentice has been hurt in two days this time at a training college in the Latrobe Valley. WorkSafe is investigating the incident at Apprenticeships Group Australia formerly Gippsland Group Training involving a 19-year-old female first year apprentice late this morning.
Published Date: 21 Aug 2009
Wild weather hits workplaces across the state
Strong winds that have crossed Victoria today have resulted in a spate of calls to WorkSafe. There have been no reports of injuries, however two men on a building site escaped injury when a 5kg piece of metal narrowly missed them having fallen from the top of
Published Date: 21 Aug 2009
Double-barrelled warning after teen shot with nail gun
A young worker has undergone surgery for abdominal injuries after being shot by a nail gun at Balliang west of Melbourne this morning. He was taken by private car to Bacchus Marsh Hospital and then flown to the Alfred Hospital. The incident happened at a property in Bacchus Marsh Rd, Balliang around 10
Published Date: 19 Aug 2009
B&D Australia convicted and fined $300,000 after worker dies
Husband and father of two young children, Mervyn Jacobs was lifting a seven-metre-long tube when it fell and killed him at Kilsyth in Melbourne s outer east in November 2006. The 350kg steel tube was to form the core of a roller door.
Published Date: 14 Aug 2009
Springvale, Flemington, Kensington, North Melbourne safer
Springvale, Flemington, Kensington and North Melbourne are the latest Melbourne suburbs to be targeted as part of WorkSafe's Safer Work Zones campaign for small businesses. More than 170 small businesses were visited in Springvale from 20 24 July.
Published Date: 13 Aug 2009
