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News


  • Car lights blurred

    Incident at Edwardstown

    SafeWork SA has been notified of an incident at Edwardstown involving a male in his 50s that received electric shock.
    02/04/21
  • Reducing 'fall-ish' workplace incidents

    SafeWork SA is reminding businesses of the importance of preventing falls.
    31/03/21
  • HSRs for work groups of multiple businesses

    New information on how the work health and safety law allows multiple persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) and their workers to establish work groups if workers are carrying out work for different PCBUs.
    24/03/21
  • Gavel and scales

    Conviction for failure to maintain equipment

    SafeWork SA has successfully prosecuted Woolworths Group Limited following a bakery trolley falling onto a worker causing serious injuries.
    23/03/21
  • Gavel and scales

    Company convicted for double leg amputation

    SafeWork SA has successfully prosecuted a hay processing and exporting company after a worker’s legs were amputated below the knee in a hay press.
    16/03/21
  • Keeping workplaces psychologically healthy

    SafeWork SA is commencing a compliance campaign to monitor work health and safety systems in relation to psychosocial risks in the workplace.
    15/03/21
  • Strategic Plan Progress Report

    SafeWork SA on track for success

    SafeWork SA’s progress report on the Strategic Plan shows the agency is on track to achieve success against set objectives after first 18 months.
    12/03/21
  • Gavel and scales

    Crane tip over results in double conviction

    SafeWork SA has charged a crane and rigging business and their employee following a crane tipping over in 2017.
    09/03/21
  • Manage risk of fall or it could be your downfall

    South Australian builders and contractors are being urged to do more to manage the risk of falls, a common risk and cause of injury to residential construction workers.
    02/03/21
  • People at Work digital tool launched across Australia

    Australia’s only validated psychosocial risk assessment tool, People at Work, is up and running on a new free, digital platform thanks to work health and safety regulators and leading researchers.
    26/02/21
  • Car lights blurred

    Fatality at Monash

    SafeWork SA confirms that they are investigating the death of a male worker in his 20’s after being crushed by a steel tank that fell from a gantry crane at a manufacturing plant on Tuesday, 23 February 2021.
    24/02/21
  • Person receiving a vaccination from a health professional

    COVID-19 Vaccine National WHS guidance released

    Safe Work Australia has released work health safety guidance on COVID-19 vaccinations and the workplace in readiness for Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout strategy commencing Monday, 22 February 2021.
    22/02/21
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