WorkCover NSW Releases Guide to Improve Safety in Housing Construction Industry
Workcover NSW today released a new guide to assist small businesses working in the residential construction sector meet their workplace safety responsibilities. "The pack highlights some common safety requirements within the residential building sector and is designed to deliver safety outcomes that are comparable to other sectors of the construction industry." 
Date:11 December, 2008Source: Workcover NSW website, click on the link to read the full article
Survey Exposes Workers' Sunlight Danger
A national survey released today indicates employers need to provide better workplace protection against direct sunlight. Council chairman Bill Scales says that although most employers provide their workers with adequate overall protection in the workplace, nearly one in five workers exposed to direct sunlight were given no protection at all.
Date: 3rd December, 2008Source: ABC News website, follow the link to read the fulll article
Worker Admits Role in Deadly Fall
A second man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a "highly unusual" case involving an industrial accident at Bennets Green more than five years ago. Richard Kevin Thirkell, of Newcastle, was a roof plumber on an Abdon Close worksite when Edgeworth mother Judith Davis, 41, fell 9.6 metres through a roof to her death on April 25, 2003. The cases are understood to be the first ever successful prosecutions of industrial manslaungter in NSW.
Date: 6th November, 2008Source: Article written by Ingrid Bown for The Herald.com.au, follow the link to read the full article.
ARAA Proposed Procedure - Poor Anchor Point Sites
The ARAA has identified that many sites continue being fitted with poorly designed, installed, documented and marked anchor installations. This leads to significant issues for our industry and we (the ARAA) have acted on this by running public information sessions and by developing an anchor code which has since been freely available to the general industry.
Date: 21st October, 2008Source: Article written for ARAA.net.au, follow the link to read the full article and download the procedure document.
