National Safe Work Month is held each October and provides business with an opportunity to reflect on how they promote work health and safety within their workplace.

A Riverland steel fabricator business that failed to address safety issues and ensure appropriate control measures were in place has been convicted and ordered to pay fines totalling $66,000.

SafeWork SA’s audit report on the compliance campaign into businesses working with silica containing materials has been released with key findings and recommendations.

Today is RU OK? Day and SafeWork SA is encouraging everyone to check in with the people around them, and particularly the people they work with, and ask if they’re really OK.

From 17 September 2021, new provisions for LPG Cylinder Labelling will require all LPG bottles that have a capacity between 500mL and 25L to have a label warning of risk of inhalation.

SafeWork SA can confirm that a male worker in his 40s has died at work after receiving fatal crush injuries on Sunday, 5 September 2021.

South Australian builders and contractors are being reminded to ensure Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) are prepared to reduce the risk of injury to workers.

Outcomes from a second compliance campaign focused on mobile elevating work platforms have highlighted the need for training of ground support personnel in the event of an emergency.

Access to, and egress from elevated work spaces must be adequate and safe for the working conditions and the types of work being carried out.

A demolition company has been convicted and fined $133,000 after a worker was struck by a falling ramp of a low loader trailer in 2019.

A carpentry company has been convicted and fined $90,000, and the company director $21,000 following an apprentice worker falling from height of more than three metres resulting in serious injuries.

SafeWork SA has implemented a range of measures to ensure the health and safety of our staff and the community during the lockdown.