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Saxon Energy fined for work safety breach

A company has been convicted and fined over an incident in which two workers were injured on a drilling rig platform. This is Saxon Energy Services Australia’s first work health and safety offence...

App Changes How We Monitor Mental Health

Researchers found that an experimental mobile app from Posit Science can monitor mental health in ways that are both comparable and superior to current methods, according to a study just published...

Rail industries on track for Rail R U OK? Day

Australian and New Zealand rail industries will celebrate the third annual, Rail R U OK? Day Thursday 20 April, with celebrations taking place across Australasia. With rail workers sometimes exposed...

Patent on Software for Depression and other

The US Patent Office has issued a comprehensive patent to Posit Science for inventions utilizing brain training software to address depression, mood and anxiety disorders. It is believed to be the...

Blueprint for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Tasmania

While the mining, agriculture, and forestry industries generate jobs and wealth for Tasmania, especially in rural and regional communities. While these industries create sustainable jobs for locals...

Additional mental health service trial: Bowen

Bowen will benefit from improved access to mental health services as part of a three-month trial being led by the Mackay Hospital and Health Service (HHS). Health and Ambulance Services Minister...

#news Free ‘Safety Pays in Mining’ Tool

NIOSH is offering a new, online tool, “Safety Pays in Mining,” which allows mining companies to calculate the cost of injury claims and see how they could profitably spend the savings...

Black lung: Miners shafted by fatal mistakes

Michael Wray, The Courier-Mail: EVERY night, even in the middle of summer, Sue Byron prepares two spare doonas and two hot water bottles in her Mackay home. Then she boils a jug of water and gets in...

Awards have 25,861 reasons to promote safety

WorkSafe is calling on all businesses and workers to prioritise safety to help drive down the number of workplace deaths and injuries across Victoria. According to new WorkSafe data, almost 26,000...