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- The 3M’s: meaningful, manageable, manual tasks – managing the risks of musculoskeletal disorders (Dr Sara Pazell)
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- The importance of work safety (Jade North)
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- The impacts of workplace injury on families (Riana Crehan)
- Promoting workplace safety for young employees (Jahin Tanvir)
- Developing evidence-based and practical solutions for preventing harm in the workplace (Dr Gregory Zelic)
- Good work design – theory and solutions to support injury prevention (Dr Carlo Caponecchia)
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- Preventing secondary psychological injury, Dr Curtis Gray
- Trauma informed care and vicarious trauma in healthcare – Dr Melissa Connell
- Using cultural capability to create mentally healthy and safe workplaces
- Managing the greatest barrier to return to work: fear – Dr Sid O'Toole
- Achieving mentally healthy workplaces through early intervention
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- Asbestos safety risk from high pressure water hoses in focus for Asbestos Awareness Week
- Nominate to join the Consultative Committee for Work-Related Fatalities and Serious Incidents
- New electrical safety laws - protecting workers and the community
- Queenslanders need to work safely 365 days a year
- Court orders $400,000 fine after a fatality at a sporting complex
- New regulation on processing crystalline silica substances in effect (1 September 2024)
- Safety a priority for the diving and snorkelling industry
- Workplace health and safety laws now apply to sex industry workers
- Compliance blitz targets construction industry
- Upcoming asbestos management compliance audits for Queensland businesses
- WorkCover fraud leads to five months imprisonment
- Work health and safety laws - clarified and stronger
- Company's 'failure to provide' results in $24,000 workers' comp fine
- New safety laws for quad bikes
- Company fined $150,000 for failing to adhere to electrical safety regulations
- Ban on engineered stone in effect (1 July 2024)
- Engineered stone ban in effect from 1 July 2024
- Joint WHSQ and Department of Environment, Science and Innovation investigation into asbestos in mulch
- Waste transfer and recycling business fined $140,000 for fatality
- Townsville business and director fined over trailer collapse in spray painting booth
- Diving fall at aquatic centre leads to $125,000 fine
- Opportunity to join Queensland’s Medical Assessment Tribunals
- Sparkie fined $10,000 for live switchboard in Sunshine Coast classroom
- New code of practice for amusement rides
- Electric shock results in $85,000 fine for aquatic centre
- Hefty fine for house demolition with complete disregard for asbestos laws
- Pie company fined after worker suffers multiple fractures
- WorkCover Queensland CEO Bruce Watson retiring
- Allied Health Services Tables of Costs review for 2024-2025
- Scott's story
- WorkCover Queensland customers continue to benefit from one of Australia’s lowest average premium rates
- New Chief Executive for WorkCover Queensland
- Updated Allied Health fees – effective 1 July 2024
- Public Health Services Table of Costs update – effective 1 July 2024
- New mental injury resources from WorkCover to help employers support workers
- New statewide campaign to reduce fatalities and critical injuries
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- Safe Work Month focuses on being safe 365 days of the year
- Annual update of Private Hospital Services Table of Costs
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- 2023
- Coomera marine centre fined $90,000 for workplace injury
- Company fined $60,000 for exposing workers to trench collapse risk
- Construction sites urged to prepare for wild weather and summer shutdown
- Queensland ready for 2023 Asbestos Awareness Week
- Queensland energy supplier fined $300,000 after powerline fatality
- Gold Coast nightclub faces the music in court
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- 2025
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- 2024
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- 2023
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- 2022
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- Fatal incident involving the unloading of construction materials
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- 2021
- Worker burned following chemical explosion
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- Scaffold related incident
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- Worker seriously injured in fall from roof
- Falling object from tower crane
- One worker killed and six injured when powerline arced to harvester
- Worker fatally crushed after being hit by moving vehicle
- Worker seriously injured by wood chipper disk
- Safety at swimming pools
- 2020
- Falling building materials
- Fatal quad bike incidents involving farm workers
- Worker struck by moving truck
- Falls from height result in serious injuries
- Workers caught in conveyor belt system
- Patron injured falling from amusement ride
- Worker injured in side-by-side vehicle rollover
- Horse training fatality
- Dead trees and working solo remotely are a dangerous mix
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- Farm worker dies in quad bike incident
- Serious injuries – falling hay bale
- Roof falls
- Worker struck by grader
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- Worker killed in conveyor crush
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- Dangers of not effectively immobilising vehicles
- Worker seriously injured by noodle making machine
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- Worker seriously injured falling from trailer
- Two workers injured by tractor slasher
- Serious injuries following fall from yacht
- Worker injured after angle grinder ‘kick back’
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- 2019
- Fatal forklift incidents
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- Formworkers suffer heat stress
- Worker injured by collapsed roof
- Fatal fall at tourist attraction
- Worker burned in fuel explosion
- Incident at Public Swimming Pool
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- Student burned in science experiment
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- Crane contacts overhead powerlines
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- Worker struck by building materials
- Workers injured in trench collapse
- Worker fatally crushed by planting machine
- Young worker injured by exploding tyre rim
- Worker burned by hot cane mud and liquid
- Operator severely injured by skidder winch
- School student injured by storage box lid
- Worker’s legs crushed by reversing forklift
- Person seriously injured by falling boat
- Worker's foot amputated in feeder bin trailer
- Two people electrocuted on a rural property
- Worker fatally crushed by skid steer loader
- Automotive mechanic struck by vehicle parts
- Abattoir worker fatally crushed by machinery
- Worker injured by overhead travelling crane
- Worker seriously burned in vehicle gas tank fire
- Audience members injured at horse racing event
- Worker severely injured by agricultural machine
- Worker injured by falling piling rig component
- High pressure water blaster used on asbestos roof
- High-pressure water blaster used on asbestos roof
- Young worker seriously injured by meat slicing machine
- Agricultural industry mobile plant roll-over incidents
- Fatal fall from height while working on air conditioning system
- 2017
- Worker run over by forklift
- Worker killed on cane rail siding
- Worker’s skull fractured by tree branch
- Worker burnt in fuel vapour explosion
- Worker killed by exploding wheel and tyre
- Serious falls from height at the Gold Coast
- Agriculture mobile plant roll-over fatalities
- Worker killed after being pinned by mobile plant
- Worker struck in head by portable hydraulic jack
- Child injured after jumping castle became airborne
- Worker fatally crushed by elevating work platform
- Billboard workers overhead powerlines electric shock
- Serious spine injury for farm worker in 4WD rollover
- Worker fatally crushed while unloading forklift from a trailer
- Two workers seriously burned after contact with high-voltage powerlines
- 2018
- Excavated wall collapse
- Worker crushed by hoist
- Tower crane strikes powerlines
- Worker killed in skylight fall
- Young worker injured by nail gun
- Fall from edge protection system
- Worker fatally crushed by grader
- Worker injured in wall collapse
- Older tourist snorkelling death
- Worker fell through formwork void
- Worker crushed by slewing crane
- Workers injured by glass sheets
- Father and son drown at beach lagoon
- Vehicle stabilisers and outriggers
- Worker struck by reversing forklift
- Fatal fall from boat in marina yard
- Worker burned in pump room explosion
- Driver fatally crushed by own truck
- Worker burned while lighting furnace
- Automotive mechanic run over by vehicle
- Quad bike fatality while back-burning
- Worker killed by pressurised gas hose
- Two workers burnt in chemical explosion
- Worker killed in fall from grain auger
- Worker fatally crushed by prime mover
- Workers fall through second storey floor
- Primary school student hit by golf buggy
- Scaffold collapses onto neighbouring home
- Workers foot amputated in screw conveyor
- Two workers die inside agriculture tanker
- Worker killed by explosion while welding
- Mobile crane rollover onto four lane road
- Workers hand crushed by mobile piling rig
- High pressure water spray on asbestos roof
- Uncontrolled movement of a concrete truck
- Generator fuel explosion in back of truck
- Audience members injured at stunt car event
- Lift motor falls down shaft injuring workers
- Workers burned by arc flash in switchboards
- Operator thrown and killed in bulldozer rollover
- Workers injured when concrete pipe toppled over
- Worker fatally crushed when forklift tipped over
- Worker fatally crushed by hay bale accumulator
- Worker killed in fall from air-conditioning duct
- Worker fatally run over by tractor he was operating
- Amusement ride gondola dropped during maintenance
- Worker severely injured by failed towing equipment
- Worker impaled by starter bar at construction site
- Tower crane load dropped after hoist rope failure
- Worker crushed by falling sheets of balustrading glass
- Worker’s lower leg amputated as forklift strikes bollard
- Teenager electrocuted by overhead powerlines on rural property
- Worker crushed under his own truck while unloading on a slope
- Worker suffers serious crush injuries in concrete pump hopper
- Worker’s arm partially amputated in quad bike collision with mechanical pruner
- 2025
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- 2018
- Sign collapse
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- 2017
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- 2012
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- 2010
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- 2011
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