During the 2015 Health and Safety Week the regulator revealed that manual handling injuries accounted for 40% of WorkCover claims and that the average fully developed cost of a manual handling claim was estimated at $59,000. That is a lot of pain and a lot of money! Manual handling refers ...

Background Glyphosate and IARC Classification. Recently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Glyphosate, the main ingredient in broad spectrum herbicides such as Round-Up , as a probable carcinogen to humans. This follows the recent issue of Monograph 122 by the International Agen...

The month of October is traditionally a busy one in the health and safety calendar. It will provide an opportunity to reflect. On Thursday 15th of October 2015, a memorial service will be held to mark the 45th anniversary of the West Gate Bridge collapse, Australia's worst industrial a...

Hazcon Pty Ltd will be at the Safety In Action exhibition at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on the Chemical Safety International (CSI) stand. As part of our ongoing commitment to ensuring safe workplaces, especially when it comes to chemicals, we will be working with CSI to ens...

WorkSafe Victoria will conduct more than 100 workplace inspections in the Moe, Newborough and Trafalgar area from 17-21 August 2015 as part of the  "Campaign to make towns safer" According to WorkSafe more than 400 workers were injured in the Moe region in the last five year...