SUTTON Tools’ health and safety committee has been named a finalist in the WorkSafe Victoria Awards 2009.
14/10/2009
A TOOLMAKER at Toyota’s Altona Plant is a finalist in the 2009 WorkSafe Victoria Awards in the category of Health and Safety Representative of the Year.
20/10/2009
WORKSAFE Victoria says Phyl Hilton from Toyota’s Altona Plant has taken out the Award for Health and Safety Representative of the Year in its 2009 Awards.
03/11/2009
WORKSAFE Victoria has issued safety guidelines for workers casting lead alloys in the manufacturing industry, warning against excessive exposure to lead.
28/07/2009
WORKSAFE Victoria has issued a safety alert regarding insufficiently guarded brake presses.
16/06/2010
WORKSAFE Victoria is investigating a fatality at the Sims Metal Brooklyn metal recycling factory on 14 January 2009.
15/01/2009
WORKSAFE Victoria says workers should not fit saw blades to angle grinders to use as cutting tools.
22/04/2009
A 31-year old welder has been seriously burned after a fuel tank he was welding at a Department of Sustainability and Environment Depot exploded.
22/04/2009
WORKSAFE Victoria says Jalor Tools has pled guilty to two workplace safety charges relating to a router tool in an incident which led to the death of a worker.
27/01/2010
A PLUMBER’S van blew up at Chelsea Heights, Melbourne, after welding and cutting gas ignited.
23/10/2009
DANDENONG-based metal fabrication business A Bending Company has had its health and safety fine tripled after an appeal in court.
13/05/2010
A man was struck on the head and killed by a piece of steel after a weld failed during an attempt to make an excavator bucket.
05/05/2008
WORKSAFE Victoria has released a new compliance code for foundry work to provide practical guidance to employers on how they can meet their duties under safety legislation.
22/09/2008
WORKSAFE Victoria has issued a safety alert warning of the serious risk of injury or death if lifting lugs are not welded properly to internal crusher liners.
07/10/2008
WORKSAFE Victoria has made available the industry standard for safe design, fabrication, transport and erection of structural steel for buildings.
15/06/2009
WORKSAFE Victoria has released information on preventing injuries and fatalities around manual lathes.
28/09/2009
FRANK Schrever says metal manufacturers can ensure their metal lathes are safe with a combination of hard and soft safety controls.
05/08/2009