On the 18th of January 2024, Work Health & Safety Ministers approved the immediate reduction of the 8-hour Time Weighted Average (TWA) Workplace Exposure Standard (WES) for welding fume (not otherwise specified) from 5 mg/m3 to 1 mg/m3. The WES becomes mandatory once the changes to...
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On 1st October Safe Work Australia published an update to its Workplace Exposure Standards for Airborne Contaminants guideline (https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/doc/workplace-exposure-standards-airborne-contaminants-2022). Key changes include halving the TWA for respirable coal dust (containing <5% quartz) from 3 mg/m3 to 1.5 mg/m3. This reduction is reflective of other recent changes to the...
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Researchers from the University of Sydney and Curtin University are conducting a research study on welding fumes. The study aims to increase the understanding and awareness of workers’ exposure to welding fumes, the harms associated with this exposure, and how this exposure can best be...
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Do you have an interest in safety science, property risk, science, hazardous materials or occupational hygiene? We’d love to hear from you. Work Science is a leading consulting firm with offices in the Sydney CBD and a laboratory in Alexandria. We are looking for motivated professionals...
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Following his return to Australia, our Chief Scientist Dr Tristan Casey is busy this July sharing innovative research-to-practice insights. There are many opportunities to hear him speak about topics ranging from best practice measurement of safety climate, through to the current evidence base for mental...
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If we replaced management with leadership, would innovation emerge? Imagine what might happen if we applied this idea across a whole industry. Last week, at the AIHS National Conference, Work Science convened a panel of leaders from academia, industry and government to share their views on...
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Today Work Science welcomes Dr Tristan Casey as our Chief Scientist. Tristan will lead our complex work health, safety, and wellbeing projects. Dr Casey is an applied safety scientist with two doctoral degrees, including his PhD that involved the development and validation of the award-winning LEAD...
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Work Science would like to congratulate our client the NSW State Emergency Service (SES) for its outstanding win at the SafeWork NSW Awards last night. The NSW SES won the large business – government section category for its outstanding Cell on Wheels (CoW Gen2) solution to...
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In 2017 the Western Australian Premier announced that work would commence to modernise the work health and safety laws for WA. When implemented in 2022, all Western Australian workplaces will come under this single Act, replacing the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984; Mines Safety...
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Plasterboard manufacturer USG Boral has issued a warning to customers that some of its fire-rated plasterboard products may be contaminated with asbestos-containing vermiculite. Although not all vermiculite contains asbestos, some products were made with vermiculite that contained asbestos until the early 1990s. Vermiculite mines throughout...
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