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Safety Alerts and Advice
WorkSafe ACT issues safety alerts for identified hazards and work health and safety incidents. Alerts issued by WorkSafe are available below.
2025
Date | Type | Title |
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24 June 2025 | Advice | WorkSafe ACT Website Translated in Over 100 Languages |
6 June 2025 | Advice | Reinstallation of engineered stone exemption |
27 March 2025 | Advice | WorkSafe ACT Business Portal Launch |
17 March 2025 | Advice and incident | Intelligence Led Campaign - Construction |
13 March 2025 | Advice | WorkSafe ACT launching new HSR network |
5 February 2025 | Advice | PCBUs have a duty to consult workers |
16 January 2025 | Advice and incident | It is the responsibility of PCBUs to identify and remove asbestos before starting residential renovations |
2024
2023
2022
Date | Type | Title |
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23 November 2022 | Advice and incident | |
17 November 2022 | Advice and incident | Installation of solar panels |
28 October 2022 | Advice and incident | Roof Trusses |
6 October 2022 | Advice and incident | Hazardous chemicals at the workplace |
29 September 2022 | Advice and incident | |
12 September 2022 | Advice and incident | Inspection and testing of electrical equipment at the workplace |
23 August 2022 | Advice | Mandatory training of apprentices |
4 August 2022 | Advice and incident | Apprentice training and supervision: Working at heights |
28 June 2022 | Advice and incident | Moulds and indoor air-contaminants |
17 June 2022 | Advice and incident | Ladder Safety |
8 June 2022 | Advice and incident | Preserving an incident site |
27 April 2022 | Advice and incident | Safety at Events |
19 April 2022 | Advice and incident | Children's Play Centres |
1 February 2022 | Advice and incident | Falling Objects |
27 January 2022 | Advice and incident | Electrical safety |
2020-21
Date | Type | Title |
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10 September 2021 | Advice | Site security |
2 September 2021 | Advice | Large-scale construction to reopen |
13 August 2021 | Advice | Mobile plant safety |
23 July 2021 | Advice | Faulty electrical equipment |
16 July 2021 | Advice | Notifying WorkSafe ACT and removing asbestos |
25 May 2021 | Advice | Stay safe on scaffolds |
3 May 2021 | Advice | Working safely with items of plant, forklift safety and working safely in enclosed spaces |
17 November 2020 | Incident | Worker seriously injured while welding |
17 November 2020 | Incident | Crane dislodges in Belconnen skyline |
15 June 2020 | Incident | Collapse of steel formwork |
6 February 2020 | Incident | Residential construction - Working at heights |
2019
Date | Type | Title |
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3 December 2019 | Incident | Earth leakage circuit breaker |
26 August 2019 | Incident | Power tool and manual handling |
4 July 2019 | Advice | Potential for dangerous scaffolding collapse |
12 June 2019 | Incident | Construction site fire |
28 May 2019 | Incident | Overhead electrical risks |
13 May 2019 | Advice | Precast panel structure |
9 April 2019 | Incident | Formwork collapse |
6 March 2019 | Incident | Crane incidents |
4 March 2019 | Incident | Extreme weather events impacting scaffolding |
7 February 2019 | Incident | Precast panel falling from structure |
9 January 2019 | Incident | Food mincing/slicing machinery |
Historic safety alerts
Date | Type | Title |
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21 December 2018 | Incident | Heavy vehicle tyre inflation |
30 November 2018 | Incident | Inspection and maintenance of skip bins |
6 August 2018 | Incident | Gas explosion |
25 July 2018 | Advice | Asbestos in bunsen burner gauze mats |
18 April 2017 | Incident | Underground cable identification |
9 March 2017 | Incident | Working on and operating electrical installations or equipment |
20 February 2017 | Incident | Scaffolding safety |
2 February 2017 | Incident | Power tool safety |
24 November 2016 | Incident | Working on electrical meters |
22 September 2016 | Advice | Unflued gas heaters and your health |
23 August 2016 | Incident | Aerosol can safety |
23 August 2016 | Incident | Basic electrical safety on construction sites |
23 August 2016 | Incident | Heavy vehicle safety |
19 July 2016 | Incident | Crane safety |
December 2010 | Incident | Disposal of clinical waste - Sharps and needles |
December 2010 | Incident | Electrical incident |
December 2010 | Incident | Power leads and electrical appliances |
November 2010 | Incident | Forklift safety |
More information:
- Aerosol can safety
- Apprentice training and supervision: Working at heights
- Are your Workers' Comp Policies in place?
- Asbestos Awareness Training
- Asbestos in bunsen burner gauze mats
- Asbestos removal work must be notified to WorkSafe ACT
- Basic electrical safety on construction sites
- Business Portal Launch
- Changes to Chemical Classifications and Labelling under GHS 7
- Children's play centres
- Collapse of steel formwork
- Conducting WHS investigations into psychosocial hazards
- Construction site fire
- Crane dislodges in Belconnen skyline
- Crane incidents
- Crane safety
- Crystalline Silica Exposure Prevention Training
- Disposal of clinical waste - Sharps and needles
- Earth leakage circuit breaker - Fire
- Electrical incident
- Electrical Safety
- Engineered Stone Prohibition
- Exemption to allow the re-installation of existing engineered stone benchtops, panels or slabs
- Extreme weather events impacting scaffolding
- Falling Objects
- Faulty electrical equipment
- Fines for PCBUs Failing to Meet Silica Training Requirements
- Food mincing/slicing machinery
- Forklift safety
- Formwork collapse
- Gas explosion
- Hazardous chemicals at the workplace
- Health monitoring when working with crystalline silica
- Heavy vehicle safety
- Heavy vehicle tyre inflation
- High-Low Lifts
- Hospitality Kitchen Fires
- Inspection and maintenance of skip bins
- Inspection and testing of electrical equipment at the workplace
- Inspectors seeing too many incidents relating to electrical safety
- Installation of solar panels
- Intelligence Led Campaign - Construction
- It is the responsibility of PCBUs to identify and remove asbestos before starting residential renovations
- It pays to be safe in Construction
- Ladder Safety
- Large-scale construction to reopen
- Lead processes and lead risk work
- Lithium-ion Battery Explosion
- Management of hazardous chemicals in the education industry
- Managing risk and reporting sexual harassment
- Managing Workplace Fatigue
- Mandatory training of apprentices
- Mobile plant safety
- Moulds and indoor air-contaminants
- Notifying WorkSafe ACT and removing asbestos
- Overhead electrical risks
- PCBU's Primary Duty of Care
- PCBUs have a duty to consult workers
- Potential for dangerous scaffolding collapse
- Power cable strike during excavation
- Power leads and electrical appliances
- Power tool and manual handling
- Power tool safety
- Precast panel falling from structure
- Precast panel structure
- Preserving an incident site
- Providing Information to Health and Safety Representatives
- Removing asbestos and notifying WorkSafe ACT
- Residential construction - Working at heights
- Risk Managing the Hazard 'Isolated and Remote Work'
- Roof Trusses
- Safety at Events
- Scaffolding - Falls from Height
- Scaffolding safety
- Sexual Assault is a Notifiable Incident
- Sexual Harassment: responsibilities under the WHS Act
- Silica and Silicosis
- Silica in Safe Work Method Statements
- Site security
- Site Security: Clean up, pack up and make safe
- Stay safe on scaffolds
- Take a step back and think about your real priorities
- Underground cable identification
- Unflued gas heaters and your health
- Vulnerable Workers in Hospitality and Retail
- Worker seriously injured while welding
- Working in heat
- Working on and operating electrical installations or equipment
- Working on electrical meters
- Working safely with items of plant
- WorkSafe ACT launching new HSR network
- WorkSafe ACT Website Translated in Over 100 Languages
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