Safety alerts for general industries issued prior to 31 March 2022 under the previous occupational health and safety legislation. 2022 Safety alert 01/2022 - Customer fall at waste management facility 2021 Safety alert 01/2021 - Service mechanic sustained serious hand injuries when struck by radiator fan blades on a generatorSafety alert 02/2021 - Employee receives electrical shock from bar glass washerSafety alert 03/2021 - Elevating work platform structural failureSafety alert 04/2021 - Employee fatally injured after falling from personal property stored at workplaceSafety alert 05/2021 - Fatal knife injury at abattoirSafety alert 06/2021 - Off-highway haul truck tyre blowout in workshop injures workers 2020 Safety alert 01/2020 - Worker electrocuted in roof spaceSafety alert 02/2020 - Pressure vessel failure injures workerSafety alert 03/2020 - Exposure to asbestos during demolition worksSafety alert 04/2020 - Near miss involving ruptured pressure vessel at demolition siteSafety alert 05/2020 - Young worker assaulted during night shift at a service station 2019 Safety alert 01/2019 - Collapse of truck mounted concrete pump with boomSafety alert 02/2019 - Second quad bike related fatality on a WA farm in four monthsSafety alert 03/2019 - Second fatal incident involving a bogged vehicleSafety alert 04/2019 - Safe use of medical oxygen cylindersSafety alert 06/2019 - Biological hazards in marine environments 2018 Safety alert 01/2018 - Worker seriously injured by flammable liquid fireSafety alert 02/2018 - Vehicle hoist service and maintenanceSafety alert 03/2018 - Worker fatally injured during plant change processSafety alert 04/2018 - Worker fatally injured during maintenance to a rock drilling truckSafety alert 05/2018 - Worker receives multiple foot fractures after exiting forkliftSafety alert 06/2018 - Worker injured by ammonia during work near refrigeration unitSafety alert 07/2018 - Farm worker fatally injured during unexpected movement of tractor Safety alert 08/2018 - Worker crushed by falling gateSafety alert 09/2018 - Managing work-related violence in home and community care servicesSafety alert 10/2018 - Advertisers standing near roadways, roundabouts and in parking areaSafety alert 11/2018 - Stone benchtop workers at risk of fatal silicosisSafety alert 12/2018 - High pressure water cleaning of asbestos cementSafety alert 13/2018 - Asbestos in Bunsen burner gauze mats 2017 Safety alert 01/2017 - Raw asbestos found in empty sea containersSafety alert 02/2017 - Asbestos found in imported friction wear plates in rail carriages 2016 Safety alert 01/2016 - Concrete pumping operations in the construction industry - a risk management approachSafety alert 02/2016 - Workers exposed to chemical fumes during household waste collectionSafety alert 03/2016 - Worker exposed to chlorine gas at aquatic centreSafety alert 04/2016 - Asbestos in imported building productsSafety alert 05/2016 - Grain fire and dust explosion in siloSafety alert 06/2016 - Exposure to asbestos during renovation worksSafety alert 07/2016 - Person drowns in plastic lined liquid waste pondSafety alert 08/2016 - Employee fatality injured after falling from forklift 2015 Safety alert 01/2015 - Vehicles and mobile plant causing deaths at workplacesSafety alert 02/2015 - Dive industry worker critically injured when filling SCUBA cylinder 2014 Safety alert 01/2014 - Arborist trapped in cotton palmSafety alert 02/2014 - Flashback arrestorsSafety alert 04/2014 - The use of floor mats in vehiclesSafety alert 05/2014 - Vehicles hitting or crushing workersSafety alert 06/2014 - Scrap metal workers fatally injured 2013 Safety alert 01/2013 - Fatal injury from heating hydraulic cylinderSafety alert 02/2013 - Non-conforming sleeper cabs in commercial vehicles increase the risk of driver fatigueSafety alert 03/2013 - Collision between 2 overhead travelling cranes pushes scissor hoist overSafety alert 04/2013 - Improving communications for truck drivers working aloneSafety alert 05/2013 - Wooden and general-purpose flat palletsSafety alert 06/2013 - Worker fatally injured by a robot palletiserSafety alert 07/2013 - Safe use of two-post vehicle hoistsSafety alert 08/2013 - Safe egress from refrigerated sea containersSafety alert 09/2013 - Welding tanks containing flammable substances 2012 Safety alert 01/2012 - Guarding for powered bin tippersSafety alert 02/2012 - Supervision of apprentices and detection of underground servicesSafety alert 03/2012 - Mobile cranes with a free fall featureSafety alert 04/2012 - 15-year-old worker injured while washing coolroom floor in fast food outletSafety alert 05/2012 - Pumping of hazardous chemicalsSafety alert 06/2012 - Kitchen hand injured while transferring hot oil to an oil disposal machineSafety alert 07/2012 - 16-year-old kitchen hand received burns while cleaning chicken rotisserie traySafety alert 08/2012 - Accidents involving use of emery cloth tape on metalworking lathesSafety alert 09/2012 - Cutting or heating metal tanksSafety alert 10/2012 - Concrete soakwell lid fatalitySafety alert 11/2012 - Weld cracking in transportable pressure discharge dry bulk powder vesselsSafety alert 12/2012 - Compacting waste trucksSafety alert 13/2012 - Asbestos gaskets in vehiclesSafety alert 14/2012 - Elevating work platform fatality 2011 Safety alert 01/2011 - Operating a mini skid steer loader with attachmentsSafety alert 02/2011 - Cutting metal drums with an angle grinderSafety alert 03/2011 - Elevating work platform fatal accidentSafety alert 04/2011 - Tree lopper leg amputationSafety alert 05/2011 - Use of safety harnesses on elevating work platformsSafety alert 06/2011 - Worker injured while cooking food in a microwave ovenSafety alert 08/2011 - Highly toxic beryllium in welding electrodesSafety alert 09/2011 - Fatigue management for fly in/fly out commercial vehicle driversSafety alert 10/2011 - Unloading multi trailer tip trucks 2010 Safety alert 01/2010 - Hay bales crush retired farmerSafety alert 02/2010 - Sulfuric acid based drain cleaner causes serious burnsSafety alert 03/2010 - Asbestos gaskets in imported plantSafety alert 04/2010 - Exposure to asbestosSafety alert 05/2010 - Explosion of aerosol can in caféSafety alert 06/2010 - Employee injured when fork tine carriage falls off forkliftSafety alert 07/2010 - TGIC usage in powder coating 2009 Safety alert 01/2009 - Driver fatigueSafety alert 02/2009 - Farm worker killed in all-terrain vehicle incidentSafety alert 03/2009 - School student seriously injured at a workplaceSafety alert 04/2009 - Incidents involving tailgates of rubbish trucksSafety alert 05/2009 - Scaffold mesh panel failureSafety alert 06/2009 - Elevated work platform operator seriously injuredSafety alert 07/2009 - Worker fatally injured in fall from grid mesh panel walkwaySafety alert 08/2009 - Cleaning supervisor electrocutedSafety alert 09/2009 - Masonry cutting grinder causes deathSafety alert 10/2009 - Long working hours a high risk in security industrySafety alert 11/2009 - Workers killed while working aloneSafety alert 12/2009 - Bulk dry powder discharge tankerSafety alert 14/2009 - Truck driver overcome by toxic fumesSafety alert 15/2009 - Deck-hand injurySafety alert 16/2009 - Workplace concrete floor gives way resulting in serious injurySafety alert 17/2009 - Employee injured while inflating tyre–no warning signsSafety alert 18/2009 - Wool press guardingSafety alert 19/2009 - Nail gun – eye injurySafety alert 20/2009 - Fall from roof results in workplace deathSafety alert 21/2009 - Edge protection failsSafety alert 22/2009 - Split rim wheel assembly injurySafety alert 23/2009 - Dislodged wire rope sling Archived Safety alert 09/2016 - Fatalities caused by falling trailer ramps (Replaced by Health and Safety Bulletin No. 10 Fatalities caused by falling trailer ramps)Safety alert 10/2002 - Explosion danger in cutting drums
