Safe Work Australia has released a comprehensive Best Practice Review of the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws, making 21 key recommendations to overhaul national safety standards following an agreement by state and federal WHS ministers. The report calls for urgent, coordinated national action to prevent work-related deaths.... Read more.

WorkSafe New Zealand says businesses must regularly review machine safety systems and guarding arrangements after the sentencing of Pukepine Sawmills (1998) Limited over an incident that left a worker with life-changing injuries. The company was sentenced in the Tauranga District Court after a worker’s hand came into contact with... Read more.

A plastic packaging manufacturer has been convicted and fined $90,000 — and ordered to pay $5966 in costs — after a worker’s index finger was severed in a granulator that had been recently acquired by the company to grind rejected plastic products into smaller particles for re-use. The incident... Read more.

After a worker was fatally crushed in a conveyor belt at Lethbridge, Victoria, a poultry farm operator has been convicted and fined $325,000. The company had a conveyor system installed to transport chicken manure from underneath various cages inside a shed at the farm, including a horizontal conveyor belt... Read more.

A manufacturing company has pledged to spend $170,800 to improve health and safety outcomes after a worker’s arm was injured while cleaning machinery at a Wangaratta factory. The incident occurred in June 2023. Two workers were directed to clean a machine that featured two applicator rollers positioned in a... Read more.