News & Views
Features
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.
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WorkSafe advice on the Act
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] -
Hotline for reps
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] -
Stand with our ambos!
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] -
VTHC Return to Work Unit
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] -
Finalists: 2007 OHS Rep of the Year
Read about the 2007 finalists for OHS Rep of the Year. [read more] -
Death on the job: Working in tanks
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] -
Occupational cancer and Workers’ Memorial Day
According to the ILO, over 600,000 workers a year die due to occupational cancer.
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Jack and Deanne May - IDSA
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] -
Workplace alcohol policies
Resources and information to assist workplaces to develop alcohol policies.
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Australia Asia Worker Links - Regional health & safety project
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] -
Problems of Migrant and Guest Labour – with a particular focus on the Asia/Pacific Region
A paper compiled for the International Trade Union Forum in Beijing, China – December 2006John Sutton, National Secretary, CFMEU[read more] -
Universal Children’s Day - Violence against children in the workplace
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] -
Federal laws and OHS
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] -
ILO to promote global asbestos ban
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.
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Two million killed at work each year
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] -
The Eight Hour Day - where has it gone?
Australia now has amongst the highest working hours in the developed world.
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Fifteen things every unionist should know about OHS
Good advice from one of Australia's biggest unions, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)
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Asbestos Awareness Week 2007
Towards a co-ordinated approach: this year's focus - to raise community & workplace awareness of asbestos as a problem needing a co-ordinated approach. [read more] -
Bhopal - a disaster even 19 years later
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 Union Effect - Rory O’Neill
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Union OHS Reps make a dramatic difference
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] -
Disaster at West Gate - 34 years on.
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]