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Investigation continues into Mount Isa mine death
ABC News Kate Stephens 7 March 2013 Counselling will be offered to colleagues of a worker who died at a mine site at Mount Isa in north-west Queensland yesterday. Investigations are underway into the...
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Complacency killed tugboat hero: report
Brisbane Times Marissa Calligeros March 7, 2013 Complacency led to the death of Brisbane’s tugboat flood hero, an investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has found. Tugboat engineer...
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Insulation inquest told no training provided
ABC News Elise Worthington 11 March 2013 A coronial inquest in Brisbane has heard a teenager who died while installing home insulation received no training and was given no proper safety equipment. The...
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Day two of inquest into insulation installer deaths hears Rueben Barnes, 16,...
The Courier Mail Kay Dibben 12 March 2013 AN EMPLOYER of a 16-year-old who was electrocuted while installing insulation said he checked to see if a metal roof was “live”that day by putting the back of...
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Inquest into workers’ deaths told of risks of installing foil insulation
The Courier Mail Kay Dibben March 13, 2013 A TRAINER of a young man who was electrocuted while installing insulation in north Queensland has told an inquest the risk of retro-fitting houses with foil...
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Electricians Association boss says he warned Federal Government that more...
The Courier Mail Kay Dibben March 15, 2013 THE Federal Government was warned within a week of the first insulation-related death that there would be more fatalities, an inquest has heard. Master...
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Man crushed by forklift at Gold Coast business
ABC News Jesse Dorsett 16 March 2013 A man has been crushed and killed by a forklift on the Gold Coast. Police say the incident happened at a business at Pimpama about 9:45am (AEST). Workplace Health...
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Body to tackle threat of asbestos-related diseases
The Sydney Morning Herald AAP March 21, 2013 A national body will be created to prevent more Australians being exposed to asbestos, described by Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten as the ”worst...
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Missing virus vial raises concerns at UTMB facility
Houston Chronicle Erin Mulvaney 24 March 2013 A vial containing a potentially harmful virus has gone missing from a laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, officials said. The missing...
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Sunshine Coast council workers forced to undergo drug tests
The Courier Mail Peter Hall & Peter Michael 27 March 2013 Sunshine Coast Council will introduce compulsory oral swabs and breath-testing from next month. Read more Filed under: Drug analysis and...
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Coroner questions tractor slasher death report
ABC News Jessica Nairn 28 March 2013 A Queensland coroner has recommended more training in the use of tractor slashers after a freak accident that killed a woman in Townsville in the state’s north...
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Asbestos plan ‘may be deadly’
The Australian Annabel Hepworth 24 April 2013 A FEDERAL push for the nationwide removal of asbestos from government and commercial buildings by 2030 would cost billions of dollars, could see rogue...
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National memorial honours victims of workplace accidents
ABC News Siobhan Heanue 29 April 2013 [updated] A national memorial for ordinary men and women killed in workplace accidents has been unveiled in Canberra. On average, about 300 Australians die every...
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Report reveals Qld’s most dangerous industries
ABC News Melissa Maddison 2 May 2013 The construction and agricultural sectors have been identified as among the most dangerous industries in Queensland in an audit of workplace deaths. A report by...
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Pike River miners’ escape doomed
The Australian AFP 7 May 2013 THE Pike River coalmine was unsafe and should not have been operating when it exploded killing 29 men in 2010, a New Zealand judge has ruled. Judge Jane Farish has...
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Pink batts worker Matthew Fuller was untrained, unsupervised, inquest hears
The Australian Sarah Elks 7 May 2013 MATTHEW Fuller was inexperienced and inadequately trained when he died installing insulation under the Rudd government’s pink batts scheme, an inquest has heard....
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Matthew Fuller had life-threatening near miss in week before death from...
The Courier Mail Brittany Vonow 7 May 2013 TWO near-misses happened in the week leading up to the electrocution of Matthew Fuller, who was killed while installing insulation under the federal...
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Electrocution victim Matthew Fuller permitted to work in ‘live’ ceiling after...
The Courier Mail Brittany Vonow 8 May 2013 A MAN electrocuted while working on a government insulation scheme called his supervisor 15 minutes before he died, worried the wiring was too complicated to...
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Inquest told foolproof insulation safety not viable
ABC News Annie Guest May 8, 2013 An inquest into the deaths of three Queensland insulation workers killed during the controversial pink batts rollout has been told that to guarantee safety an...
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Inquiry hears electrical safety not identified as an issue until first fatal...
The Courier Mail Brittany Vonow May 09, 2013 ELECTRICAL safety was not identified as an issue until the first fatal electrocution after the government’s Home Insulation Program began in 2009.Kevin...
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