THE AUSTRALIAN Steel Institute (ASI) has opened entries for its 2009 ASI National Occupational Health and Safety Excellence Awards until 31 July.
26/06/2009
THE Australian Steel Institute (ASI) has opened entries for its National Occupational Health and Safety Excellence Award 2008.
28/04/2008
THE AUSTRALIAN Steel Institute says all three ASI National Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Awards winners for 2009 were presented awards at the Australian Steel Convention in Sydney.
10/12/2009
THE HIGH Court has refused a metal tooling company’s leave to appeal, opening the way for workplace safety prosecution of the business.
14/11/2008
PRO-VISUAL Publishing is sending out free copies of its 2009/10 edition of the Metal Manufacturing Industry Guide to Safety chart.
09/06/2009
ACCUWEIGH has tested and serviced a set of heavy capacity industrial scales used at a Brisbane steel plant for weighing coils of colour bond sheeting.
01/08/2008
METAL recyclers are angry after the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) dropped its support for a working group set up to design an end-of-life solution for LPG gas bottles.
06/11/2008
BRADKEN Resources has been convicted and fined $20,000 after the fingers of a worker were severely injured at its Kilburn foundry in September 2006.
16/03/2009
STEEL galvanising company Korvest has been convicted and fined after two 2006 incidents in which its employees were burned by 450 degree molten metal.
07/10/2008
ZINIFEX Port Pirie, the previous operator of the Port Pirie metal smelter has been found guilty of breaking workplace safety laws after a worker was killed at the facility in 2004.
28/07/2008
AUSTRALIAN Welding Solutions says high-profile disasters often serve to highlight the devastating consequences when poor welding practices and procedures compromise the integrity of entire structures.
05/05/2009
SHEET metal products manufacturer Stratco has been convicted and fined in the SA Industrial Court after a worker injured his thumb in a fabricating machine.
14/09/2009
SPECIALISED Gaskets is using water jet cutting to manufacture up to 1000 gaskets a day, and claims the technology offers many advantages.
26/05/2008
HONEYWELL’S Lloyd Lazarus has posted a tip on the Metalworking Fluids blog on how metal workers can work out the amount of oil in semi-synthetic or soluble oil and water based fluid.
10/07/2008
HEARING has begun into a metal fabrication class accident in which a teenage girl lost parts of two fingers.
03/09/2008