Safety News

OH&S in the workplace

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Directors, Executives, Managers and Employees are all now seen to be responsible for OHS&E within the workplace. In some states the crime of “Industrial Manslaughter” is a reality. Unsafe work efficiencies such as having damaged pallets in your racking can cause major collapses. All work practises need to be revised to ensure it is the…

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Steel racking Safety

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The very real risk of fatal workplace accidents is a concern for all managers and employees; therefore, these risks need to be addressed through controls such as safety awareness and training. It has been identified that most racking failures are a direct result of unqualified people changing racking, bumping into racking with forklifts or not…

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Steel Storage Racking Inspections

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With one of the most functional infrastructure elements in warehouses being Steel Storage Racking, a silently ignored risk could easily become a loud collapse with implications of industry manslaughter. It is frightening to think that one slight alteration in racking from an unqualified person can have disastrous consequences to the stability of the racking and…

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Be A Safety Champion

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Safe Work Australia reminds all workers and businesses to commit to building safe and healthy workplaces this National Safe Work Month.

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Young man’s leg crushed by approx a tonne of falling pallets from a forklift in NSW

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A tradesman was crushed by a falling stack of pallets weighing an estimated one tonne in a horror workplace accident this morning. Several ambulance and police crews rushed to the Bond Crescent building site in Wetherill Park, west of Sydney, just after 10.30am.

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