2022
2021
- Safety alert 01/2021 - Service mechanic sustained serious hand injuries when struck by radiator fan blades on a generator
- Safety alert 02/2021 - Employee receives electrical shock from bar glass washer
- Safety alert 03/2021 - Elevating work platform structural failure
- Safety alert 04/2021 - Employee fatally injured after falling from personal property stored at workplace
- Safety alert 05/2021 - Fatal knife injury at abattoir
- Safety alert 06/2021 - Off-highway haul truck tyre blowout in workshop injures workers
2020
- Safety alert 01/2020 - Worker electrocuted in roof space
- Safety alert 02/2020 - Pressure vessel failure injures worker
- Safety alert 03/2020 - Exposure to asbestos during demolition works
- Safety alert 04/2020 - Near miss involving ruptured pressure vessel at demolition site
- Safety alert 05/2020 - Young worker assaulted during night shift at a service station
Dangerous Goods
- Safety considerations for alcohol-based hand sanitisers (Safety Bulletin 0120)
- Safety considerations when manufacturing alcohol-based hand sanitisers (Safety Bulletin 0220)
2019
- Safety alert 01/2019 - Collapse of truck mounted concrete pump with boom
- Safety alert 02/2019 - Second quad bike related fatality on a WA farm in four months
- Safety alert 03/2019 - Second fatal incident involving a bogged vehicle
- Safety alert 04/2019 - Safe use of medical oxygen cylinders
- Safety alert 06/2019 - Biological hazards in marine environments
2018
- Safety alert 01/2018 - Worker seriously injured by flammable liquid fire
- Safety alert 02/2018 - Vehicle hoist service and maintenance
- Safety alert 03/2018 - Worker fatally injured during plant change process
- Safety alert 04/2018 - Worker fatally injured during maintenance to a rock drilling truck
- Safety alert 05/2018 - Worker receives multiple foot fractures after exiting forklift
- Safety alert 06/2018 - Worker injured by ammonia during work near refrigeration unit
- Safety alert 07/2018 - Farm worker fatally injured during unexpected movement of tractor
- Safety alert 08/2018 - Worker crushed by falling gate
- Safety alert 09/2018 - Managing work-related violence in home and community care services
- Safety alert 10/2018 - Advertisers standing near roadways, roundabouts and in parking area
- Safety alert 11/2018 - Stone benchtop workers at risk of fatal silicosis
- Safety alert 12/2018 - High pressure water cleaning of asbestos cement
- Safety alert 13/2018 - Asbestos in Bunsen burner gauze mats
2017
- Safety alert 01/2017 - Raw asbestos found in empty sea containers
- Safety 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 approach
- Safety alert 02/2016 - Workers exposed to chemical fumes during household waste collection
- Safety alert 03/2016 - Worker exposed to chlorine gas at aquatic centre
- Safety alert 04/2016 - Asbestos in imported building products
- Safety alert 05/2016 - Grain fire and dust explosion in silo
- Safety alert 06/2016 - Exposure to asbestos during renovation works
- Safety alert 07/2016 - Person drowns in plastic lined liquid waste pond
- Safety alert 08/2016 - Employee fatality injured after falling from forklift
- Safety alert 09/2016 - Fatalities caused by falling trailer ramps
2015
- Safety alert 01/2015 - Vehicles and mobile plant causing deaths at workplaces
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Safety alert 02/2015 - Dive industry worker critically injured when filling SCUBA cylinder
2014
- Safety alert 01/2014 - Arborist trapped in cotton palm
- Safety alert 02/2014 - Flashback arrestors
- Safety alert 04/2014 - The use of floor mats in vehicles
- Safety alert 05/2014 - Vehicles hitting or crushing workers
- Safety alert 06/2014 - Scrap metal workers fatally injured
2013
- Safety alert 01/2013 - Fatal injury from heating hydraulic cylinder
- Safety alert 02/2013 - Non-conforming sleeper cabs in commercial vehicles increase the risk of driver fatigue
- Safety alert 03/2013 - Collision between 2 overhead travelling cranes pushes scissor hoist over
- Safety alert 04/2013 - Improving communications for truck drivers working alone
- Safety alert 05/2013 - Wooden and general-purpose flat pallets
- Safety alert 06/2013 - Worker fatally injured by a robot palletiser
- Safety alert 07/2013 - Safe use of two-post vehicle hoists
- Safety alert 08/2013 - Safe egress from refrigerated sea containers
- Safety alert 09/2013 - Welding tanks containing flammable substances
2012
- Safety alert 01/2012 - Guarding for powered bin tippers
- Safety alert 02/2012 - Supervision of apprentices and detection of underground services
- Safety alert 03/2012 - Mobile cranes with a free fall feature
- Safety alert 04/2012 - 15-year-old worker injured while washing coolroom floor in fast food outlet
- Safety alert 05/2012 - Pumping of hazardous chemicals
- Safety alert 06/2012 - Kitchen hand injured while transferring hot oil to an oil disposal machine
- Safety alert 07/2012 - 16-year-old kitchen hand received burns while cleaning chicken rotisserie tray
- Safety alert 08/2012 - Accidents involving use of emery cloth tape on metalworking lathes
- Safety alert 09/2012 - Cutting or heating metal tanks
- Safety alert 10/2012 - Concrete soakwell lid fatality
- Safety alert 11/2012 - Weld cracking in transportable pressure discharge dry bulk powder vessels
- Safety alert 12/2012 - Compacting waste trucks
- Safety alert 13/2012 - Asbestos gaskets in vehicles
- Safety alert 14/2012 - Elevating work platform fatality
2011
- Safety alert 01/2011 - Operating a mini skid steer loader with attachments
- Safety alert 02/2011 - Cutting metal drums with an angle grinder
- Safety alert 03/2011 - Elevating work platform fatal accident
- Safety alert 04/2011 - Tree lopper leg amputation
- Safety alert 05/2011 - Use of safety harnesses on elevating work platforms
- Safety alert 06/2011 - Worker injured while cooking food in a microwave oven
- Safety alert 08/2011 - Highly toxic beryllium in welding electrodes
- Safety alert 09/2011 - Fatigue management for fly in/fly out commercial vehicle drivers
- Safety alert 10/2011 - Unloading multi trailer tip trucks
2010
- Safety alert 01/2010 - Hay bales crush retired farmer
- Safety alert 02/2010 - Sulfuric acid based drain cleaner causes serious burns
- Safety alert 03/2010 - Asbestos gaskets in imported plant
- Safety alert 04/2010 - Exposure to asbestos
- Safety alert 05/2010 - Explosion of aerosol can in café
- Safety alert 06/2010 - Employee injured when fork tine carriage falls off forklift
- Safety alert 07/2010 - TGIC usage in powder coating
2009
- Safety alert 01/2009 - Driver fatigue
- Safety alert 02/2009 - Farm worker killed in all-terrain vehicle incident
- Safety alert 03/2009 - School student seriously injured at a workplace
- Safety alert 04/2009 - Incidents involving tailgates of rubbish trucks
- Safety alert 05/2009 - Scaffold mesh panel failure
- Safety alert 06/2009 - Elevated work platform operator seriously injured
- Safety alert 07/2009 - Worker fatally injured in fall from grid mesh panel walkway
- Safety alert 08/2009 - Cleaning supervisor electrocuted
- Safety alert 09/2009 - Masonry cutting grinder causes death
- Safety alert 10/2009 - Long working hours a high risk in security industry
- Safety alert 11/2009 - Workers killed while working alone
- Safety alert 12/2009 - Bulk dry powder discharge tanker
- Safety alert 14/2009 - Truck driver overcome by toxic fumes
- Safety alert 15/2009 - Deck-hand injury
- Safety alert 16/2009 - Workplace concrete floor gives way resulting in serious injury
- Safety alert 17/2009 - Employee injured while inflating tyre–no warning signs
- Safety alert 18/2009 - Wool press guarding
- Safety alert 19/2009 - Nail gun – eye injury
- Safety alert 20/2009 - Fall from roof results in workplace death
- Safety alert 21/2009 - Edge protection fails
- Safety alert 22/2009 - Split rim wheel assembly injury
- Safety alert 23/2009 - Dislodged wire rope sling
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