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Horsham company fined over silo incident
A Horsham company has been fined $50 000 after a worker’s leg became entangled in an unguarded sweep auger, causing the calf muscle on his right leg to detach and lacerations that needed about 100 stitches.
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Tatura company fined for placing worker at risk
Tatura Milk allowed an apprentice to crawl along two aluminum planks, over a suspended ceiling in the dark, while trying to remove a live bird and has been ordered to pay $20 000.
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Safe Towns Campaign targets Shepparton
WorkSafe inspectors will visit small businesses in Shepparton in August to check on health and safety compliance as part of an ongoing campaign across regional Victoria.
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Return to Work inspectors focus on Dandenong
Return to Work Inspectors will visit employers in Dandenong over the next month to ensure they are meeting their return to work obligations for injured workers.
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Advisory
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WorkSafe Advisory received 5466 calls in June 2012 on a wide range of health and safety questions.
The hot topics this month include employee representation and machine guarding.
Check out these links for more information.
Employee representation hand book
Machine guarding alert
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Manufacturing and logistics
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Driver crushed to death
A driver was crushed to death at a traffic light when a 20-tonne load on a nearby semi-trailer tipped onto his car in Sydney.
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Forklift fatality
A 40-year-old worker was crushed to death by his forklift in front of his work mates at Flemington Markets in Sydney's west.
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Worker dies in gas explosion
WorkSafe WA says a 38-year-old man was believed to be working with a manual hydraulic press when a metal cylinder shattered and hit him in the chest.
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Worker seriously injured in trailer incident
WorkSafe has issued a safety improvement notice to a Ballarat road transport manufacturer after a worker was seriously injured when he became trapped under a trailer.
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New Zealand sawmill fined after worker loses leg
A Taranaki company has been fined $60 000 and ordered to pay $50 000 in reparation to an employee who had his leg amputated in a workplace accident last September.
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Company fined for poorly guarded machinery
Proform Plastics Limited, a New Zealand manufacturing company, was fined NZ$42 000 after a worker narrowly avoided a serious injury from unguarded machinery.
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Delivery driver seriously injured
Sealed Air at Glendene (New Zealand) have been fined NZ$32 700 and ordered to pay an injured delivery truck driver NZ$40 000. for reparation.
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Failure to report workplace injuries results in $62 000 fine
When Auckland-based company Mondiale Freight Services Limited was investigated for a workplace injury in 2010, the inspector discovered a series of other injuries that were never reported.
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New safety solution eliminating fall risks
Before the introduction of this new system, truck drivers and crane dogmen were required to work on the truck platform during loading and unloading of reinforcing steel.
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Agriculture
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Worker killed in forestry block
A 44-year-old forestry worker died after he was hit by a falling log in the Wharerata ranges, New Zealand.
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Toddler dies in irrigation channel
An 18-month-old boy has died after being found in an irrigation channel in south-west New South Wales.
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Risky business
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 To remind people of the dangers of unsafe work practices...
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Reported incidents
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| Since the last newsletter there were 119 incidents reported to WorkSafe in the manufacturing, logistics, food, agriculture and retail/trade industries.
These include six fractures, 41 lacerations, one electric shock and eight amputations.
Read the list for your industry
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Events
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Making safety easier
AiGroup is holding a half-day seminar that encourages all workers to be actively involved in OHS. The focus will be on raising awareness of key issues that need to be addressed and how to manage them effectively.
Monday, 27 July 2012, Melbourne
For more information and registration
Farmsafe Farmer Award 2012
Do you demonstrate farm safety excellence? Applications for the Australian Farmsafe Farmer of the Year Award close on Friday 13 July.
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National Farm Safety Week, 16 – 21 July
Sparking awareness of farm safety issues across Australia. The 2012 theme is ‘Farm Safety - Fix It for Everyone’.
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Farm Safety Conference
The 2012 Farm Safety Conference, in conjunction with the Mt Isa Centre for Remote and Rural Health biennial conference, is in August.
Theme: Are you remotely interested in ...
Mt Isa, Queensland
1 - 4 August 2012
For more information
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What you've said...
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Do you have some thoughts about what you’d like to read here? Want to share your opinion about an article or OHS issue?
Send your contributions to safetyexpress@worksafe.vic.gov.au
Contributions may be edited for publication.
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Keep yourself in the know
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For more advice or information on improving workplace safety call WorkSafe’s Advisory Service on 1800 136 089 or go to worksafe.vic.gov.au.
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