Worksafe QLD will be hosting the Mental Health Week on 8th - 12th of October, 2017. The theme of the event is Creating Mentally Healthy Workplaces.The Mental Health Week aims to promote the importance of mental health and wellbeing and reduce the stigma associated with mental illness. There will be two free events and it is encouraged that the employers talk to their workers about posit...

Two billboard workers suffered a severe electrical shock and burns from contacting the high voltage lines. The two were reinstalling a six-metre aluminium sail track on a billboard last 07 August 2017. Workers were in an uninsulated elevating work platform when they came in contact to an 11 kV powerline. Working near powerlines can be fatal. Touching them or straying into the exclusion ...