Energy Safe Victoria has reminded electrical workers to never work live after an electrician was hospitalised with burns from an explosion in the switchboard he was working on. The licensed electrical worker was at a Clifton Hill property on Tuesday, 4 July when he pierced a live cable with... Read more.

A multinational company has been sentenced after a worker’s arm got caught in a bark-stripping machine which did not have the appropriate safeguards for New Zealand use. CFGC Forest Managers (NZ) Limited (CFGC) is a forest management and export company. Its parent company, China Forestry Group New Zealand Company... Read more.

Utility company Goulburn Valley Region Water Corporation, trading as Goulburn Valley Water, has been convicted and fined $50,000 after a worker was injured while cleaning part of a waste water management system. The corporation was sentenced after pleading guilty to a single charge of failing to provide or maintain... Read more.

Queensland’s Electrical Safety Officer (ESO) is investigating an arc flash incident that resulted in a worker sustaining burns while working on an energised electrical distribution board. While the worker was attempting to change out a circuit breaker in the distribution board, a short circuit created an arc flash. The ESO noted... Read more.

A West Auckland bakery business which didn’t properly safeguard its machinery has been sentenced over two incidents, six months apart, in which workers had their hands disfigured. Bakeworks Limited, which makes gluten-free products, was sentenced in Waitakere District Court for health and safety failures related to both incidents. In... Read more.