Work health and safety alerts issued after 31 March 2022. These health and safety alerts suggest practical measures to assist in reducing the risk.
Significant incident summary
- Significant Incident Summary No. 1 Employee suffers burn injury from aerosol can dropped in deep fryer
- Significant Incident Summary No. 2 Scaffolder falls and is injured while carrying out high risk construction work
- Significant Incident Summary No. 3 Installing non-original sun visors that reduce field of view: fatal incident
- Significant Incident Summary No. 4 Driver entrapment risk when exiting a bus or coach: fatal incident
- Significant Incident Summary No. 5 Farm worker entangled in rotating machinery: fatal incident
- Significant Incident Summary No. 6 Offshore platform decommissioning near miss
- Significant Incident Summary No. 7 Working safely around agricultural equipment: Hobbs Hoist fatal incident
- Significant Incident Summary No. 8 Worker drowns while pumping water for roadworks
- Significant Incident Summary No. 9 Skid steer loader crush incident
- Significant Incident Summary No. 10 Worker crushed while operating a side-loader trailer
- Significant Incident Summary No. 11 All terrain elevating work platform incident
Health and safety bulletin
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 1 Embrittlement – Serious risk to alloy lifting chain integrity when lifting loads in a corrosive environment
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 2 Lifting, lowering or suspending loads
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 3 Ruptured aluminium air conditioning flushing canisters
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 4 Managing drilling breakthroughs in underground mining
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 5 Fraudulent qualifications in the WA mining industry
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 6 Requirements for flying foxes (zip lines) under the Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 7 Water slide health and safety requirements
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 8 Mobile cranes contacting live overhead power lines
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 9 Traffic management on roads and other areas where vehicles and mobile plant operate on a mine
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 10 Fatalities caused by falling trailer ramps
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 11 Provision and maintenance of automated external defibrillators at workplaces
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 12 Asbestos containing flooring material
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 13 Fire doors containing friable asbestos material
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 14 Bridge crane and scissor lift collision during crane maintenance
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 15 Hydraulic fluid contamination resulting in uncontrolled movement: elevating work platforms
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 16 Incorrect use of a pipe wrench on a drilling rig
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 17 Falls through fragile roofs and roof openings
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 18 Dangers of storing aerosol cans inside vehicle cabins
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 19 Entrapment hazards in public playgrounds
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 20 Risks to workers exposed to electrical hazards
- Health and Safety Bulletin No.21 Assessing the risks when riding horses
- Health and Safety Bulletin No.22 Working under vehicles and mobile plant
- Health and Safety Bulletin No. 23 Attempted use of falsified licences