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Safety alerts

  • Asbestos Contamination Alert – Decorative Sand Products
  • Asbestos in mineral kits
  • Asbestos in some bunsen burner mats
  • Asbestos safety in bushfire-affected areas
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Electrical power tool safety on board marine vessels
  • Excavator reverses over worker
  • Failure of soft sling during maintenance
  • Farmers fatally crushed using tractors
  • Flyrock from blasting
  • Hazard management advice for bushfire-affected areas
  • Inadequate guarding found on mobile plant used in forest industry
  • Q fever
  • Risks of not parking vehicles safely
  • Safe use of side-by-side or multi-utility vehicles
  • Temporary work platforms: preventing falls at mines and high-risk processing facilities
  • Traffic controller incident
  • Vehicle collides with unsecured swing gate
  • Worker injures hand in conveyor belt
  • Working near overhead electric lines
Last updated: 29 October 2019
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