Standards
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Pro-Vis AR safety app targets young workers and apprentices
AR Interactive, NSW Construction Site Safety Guide 2023/24 has produced a safety app targeting young workers and apprentices. In conjunction with Master Builders Association of NSW ... -
Research shows outsourced labour on the rise
Big business is outsourcing labour in Australia at rapidly rising rates, undermining wages, job security and conditions in all industries. The practice is rife in aviation, ... -
Industry calls for stronger protection of subcontractors
Industry associations representing the Victoria’s subcontractors have called for stronger protection in a joint submission to the Victorian government. The subcontractors’ associations, who have joined with ... -
Queensland Electrical Safety Act to be overhauled
The Queensland Government is in the process of overhauling its Electrical Safety Act 2002 in response to the dramatic way electricity use has changed over the ... -
Energy Safe marks first licence renewal via CPD program
Energy Safe Victoria has marked its first licence renewal with a licensee who was the first electrician to complete the regulator’s new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) ... -
Energy Safe bans supply of faulty wind turbines
Energy Safe Victoria has banned the supply of non-compliant small wind turbines by Adant Services Group (ASG) and its director Adam Falzon following a series of ... -
Calls intensify for ban on lethal engineered stone
Unions, along with medical professionals and health and safety experts, have amplified their call for a full ban on all engineered stone products that contain deadly ... -
Standards Australia makes access easier and cheaper for tradies
Standards Australia has released a new mobile model, giving tradespeople, technicians and workers the ability to access standards on work sites in real time through their ... -
ESV publishes latest edition of the electrical industry Blue Book
Energy Safe Victoria (ESV) has published the 2022 edition of Victoria’s Code of Practice on Electrical Safety for Work on or Near High Voltage Electrical Apparatus. ... -
Reminder to meet RCD requirements for residential tenancy premises
Starting 29 March 2023, all power outlets and lighting circuits in the rented premises are to be connected to a switchboard-type Circuit Breaker that complies with ...
