The 'Features' section of the site will have items on a variety of topics which will interest workers, elected reps and others with an interest in OHS.
The 'Features' section of the site will have items on a variety of topics which will interest workers, elected reps and others with an interest in OHS.
Asbestos Dust. Between the headlines, the corporate line and the legal circus there's the breath. The breath to sing the stories....read more
This is a summary of the ACTU/VTHC submission to the review of OHS laws. ...read more
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The Ambulance Employees Association needs your help to send a message to the State Government that you stand with paramedics and their campaign for a better, safer ambulance service for all Victorians....read more
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Australia now has amongst the highest working hours in the developed world....read more
The Victorian Trades Hall Council has set up a Return to Work Unit to challenge the barriers that stop injured workers returning to full and meaningful employment. The Unit is also providing training to workers and their representatives. Read more...read more
The VTHC has been running special briefings for OHS reps on the new OHS Act. If you've got questions, here's how to get them answered....read more
Good advice from one of Australia's biggest unions, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)...read more
Union safety reps have a dramatic, positive impact on safety at work - and the more training they get, the more marked the "union safety effect" according to a report by UK safety magazine, "Hazards"....read more
Interview with Jukka Takala, director of ILO’s SafeWork programme, on the International Labour Office (ILO) decision to pursue a global ban on asbestos, the world’s biggest ever industrial killer....read more
A paper compiled for the International Trade Union Forum in Beijing, China – December 2006 John Sutton, National Secretary, CFMEU...read more
Prior to this year's International Workers' Memorial Day, SafetyNet spoke to Jack and Deanne May, president and secretary of IDSA respectively – the Industrial Deaths Support and Advocacy Inc. ...read more
Australia Asia Worker Links (AAWL), an organisation established in 1979 by activists who wanted to promote international workers solidarity, has been organising solidarity visits between worker activists in the Asia Pacific region since 1979. This is a report on the AAWL Regional Health & Safety Project, prepared by Manrico Moro, AAWL's Information Convenor....read more
December 3 is the anniversary of the disaster at Bhopal. Nineteen years after this industrial accident, contamination continues to kill people in India. Article by Pierre Prakash, La Liberation...read more
The tragic death of a 42-year-old Werribee man while working inside a steel tank at a business in McArthur’s Rd, Altona North reported in SafetyNet121 spurred Clayton Larkin, who was Victoria’s first OHS Rep of the Year, to contact us....read more
WorkSafe has produced a number of publications on the 2004 Occupational Health and Safety Act. The latest two provide information for employees and health and safety reps....read more
15 October 2004: Today marked 34 years since the West Gate Bridge collapsed killing 35 workers and seriously injuring 17 in what is still Australia's worst industrial accident on October 15, 1970....read more
The Howard federal government has introduced or amended a raft of legislation, including 'WorkChoices'. Has OHS been affected by this? What does it mean for Victorian workers?...read more
Read about the 2007 finalists for OHS Rep of the Year....read more
According to the ILO, over 600,000 workers a year die due to occupational cancer....read more
About two million people are killed by their work every year. This latest global estimate comes from the International Labour Office (ILO) - and that's just a small part of the carnage at work, says Jukka Takala, Director of ILO's SafeWork programme....read more
November 20 is Universal Children's Day and a report released by the United Nations many of the world’s more than 300 million child and adolescent workers suffer ill-treatment, physical and psychological violence, verbal or sexual abuse....read more
Resources and information to assist workplaces to develop alcohol policies....read more