Workplace safety
NSW Corrective Services employees are subject to intolerable behaviour
Jails aren’t pleasant places. But those who work in them and are forced to live in them should at least be safe from abuses of power.
- by The Herald's View
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Prisons
‘Do you like this position?’: The workplace rife with shocking sexual harassment
More than a dozen current and former Corrective Services workers, including guards, administrative assistants and senior managers from different prisons say they endured humiliating harassment and assault,
- by Jordan Baker
Employers spruik workplace wellbeing services. But who is picking up the phone?
More workers are accessing their company’s Employee Assistance Program, but psychologists and researchers have questioned whether the system is working.
- by Mary Ward
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Manufacturing
What will future manufacturing jobs really look like?
The government is set to spend $22 billion on manufacturing over the next decade. But what does the future of the industry look like?
- by Sue White
No prosecution after two workers nearly killed at Santos facility off WA
WA’s safety regulator has let companies off the hook, says the union for offshore oil and gas workers.
- by Peter Milne
Rescue practise goes wrong at BHP’s Leinster nickel mine
A rescuer needed rescuing after a safety drill went badly wrong at BHP’s Leinster underground mine, leaving a miner dangling over a 150-metre deep shaft.
- by Peter Milne
Asbestos scare closes government biosecurity labs in South Perth
Laboratories vital to protecting WA agriculture from disease have been closed since Friday after asbestos concerns at the government’s South Perth facilities.
- by Peter Milne
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WA Parliament
‘Old-fashioned and inappropriate’: Staff survey pulls back curtain on culture of WA Parliament
The confidential survey of parliamentary staff found that discrimination and “inappropriate behaviour” is rife, prompting a major overhaul.
- by Jesinta Burton
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The Dust of Death
$2.5 million to enforce engineered stone ban after inspections reveal worksite issues
A national ban on the use, supply and manufacture of engineered stone, commonly used in shiny kitchen benchtops, will begin next month.
- by Mary Ward
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Skiing
How a gust of wind made a chairlift fall, seriously injuring three snowboarders
An investigation into how a chair fell from a cable at Thredbo has revealed what went wrong and raised concerns about the safety of lifts at all Australian snow resorts.
- by Catherine Naylor
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Naked City
He was one of Victoria’s top homicide detectives. Working too hard cost him the job he loved
Lucio Rovis was one of the Big Five of the homicide squad, where he spent 25 years. He was transferred to a taskforce and then offered his old job back. It was too late.
- by John Silvester