With Summer well and truly in full swing, Onslow took the full brunt of the heat reaching an equal hottest on record temperature of 50.7C.
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Campaign to help manage occupational lung disease
Safe Work Australia is offering information on how to eliminate or manage dust hazards as part of its Clean Air Clear Lungs campaign.
The campaign aims to raise awareness of the dangers of occupational
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Campaign highlights the risk of occupational lung disease
Safe Work Australia is highlighting the importance of clean air in the workplace as part of this year’s National Safe Work Month of October.
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Workplace culture the focus for Safe Work Month
Safe Work Australia is encouraging the resources industry to make health and safety a central part of their workplace culture as part of October's Safe Work Month.
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Lung disease campaign to identify workplace hazards
Safe Work Australia has launched an occupational lung disease awareness campaign which will run until December 2021.
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Falls remain top work risk: Safe Work Australia
Working from heights remains the leading cause of fatalities and serious injuries in Australian workplaces, according to Safe Work Australia data.
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Mining fatalities retain steady average
The number of fatalities in the mining sector last year has matched its five-year average from 2015 to 2019, according to a Safe Work Australia report.
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Safe Work alters workplace limit to silica exposure
Work health and safety ministers have agreed to reduce the workplace exposure standards for respirable crystalline silica as soon as practicable.
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Safe Work Australia releases return to work strategy
Safe Work Australia has launched the National Return to Work Strategy 2020-2030, which sets an ambitious agenda to minimise the impact of work-related injury and illness, and optimise workers’ recovery and capacity to work.
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Roy Hill backs research to reduce injury risks
Roy Hill has supported research that guided the developed of technology to measure and assess the risk of musculoskeletal injuries (MSK) in resource industry workers, an injury that is most common and costly to manage.
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Safe Work dust exposure limit proposal backed by QLD
Queensland is committed to matching Safe Work Australia’s recommended standards for dust exposure, due for release before the year ends.
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Work health and safety laws set for update
Former Safe Work Australia director Marie Boland has produced 34 recommendations that could enhance workers’ safety after launching a review of the Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws 2018.
Among her
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Workplace injury to reduce with advancing automation
Robots and automation will make work safer and reduce workplace injury in Australia over the next 20 years, as revealed in a joint study by Safe Work Australia and CSIRO’s data innovation group Data61.
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