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| UpdatedA construction industry whistleblower speaks out about safety standards in the sector, saying he thought someone would be "seriously injured or killed" at the Perth building site where a German backpacker fell to her death last month.
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| UpdatedPolice investigators and the state coroner are re-enacting last week's Dreamworld tragedy which claimed four lives at the Gold Coast theme park.
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Tim Bowden, Steve Rush and Ben Maynard at the Tasmanian Minerals Emergency Response Committee 2016 emergency response competition.
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Competition adjudicator Rex Johnson had teams work with ropes and first aid equipment to lower a casualty safely to the ground from a 15 metre platform.
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| UpdatedMiners test their skills in simulated emergency situations at Bell Bay Aluminium's old alumina kiln.
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| UpdatedThe bodies of four people who died at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast have been released to families for burial, Queensland police confirm.
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| UpdatedAbout 200 staff members at Dreamworld return to work as part of a "cautious and staged" recovery following the deaths of four people on a ride last week.
Topics: workplace, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, coomera-4209
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Canberra's Gay and Lesbian Qwire have dedicated this moving performance to Luke Dorsett and his partner Roozbeh Araghi, who were killed in the Dreamworld tragedy this week.
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Dreamworld CEO Craig Davidson says Workplace Health and Safety Queensland officers are on site today and have full access to the park.
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| UpdatedSpecialist engineers will examine all rides at all Queensland theme parks, including Dreamworld where four people died this week, the State Government says, with the Premier also announcing a Workplace Health and Safety audit.
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| UpdatedAll awnings over public land in Queensland should be urgently inspected following the death of a man on the Gold Coast who was crushed by a falling awning, a Queensland coroner recommends.
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| UpdatedDreamworld defends its safety record in light of documents showing previous allegations of safety breaches dating back to 2012, as police investigate possible criminal negligence charges following this week's deaths.
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Dozens of detectives are at Dreamworld on Queensland's Gold Coast after four people were killed on a ride yesterday in what is Queensland's worst theme park tragedy.
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| UpdatedPolice say it is a miracle that two children survived Queensland's worst theme park tragedy, with four adults dying when a ride malfunctioned at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast yesterday.
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Public service insurer Comcare wins the right to end a woman's ongoing compensation after already paying for more than 900 physio sessions at a cost of $42,000.
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A decorated former police officer badly injured after a criminal shot at him, lodging 37 bullet fragments in his head, calls for an overhaul of Victoria's WorkSafe compensation scheme.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, workplace, judges-and-legal-profession, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is accused of breaking a promise to ensure a Senate inquiry into workplace deaths ahead of reintroducing Australian Building and Construction Commission legislation.
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| UpdatedA university study uses ego depletion theory to find out if bad moods are contagious in the workplace, and what to do to avoid spreading one.
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| UpdatedA letter sent to the family of a German woman suggesting her spirit would apologise for letting people down after she died on a Perth worksite is branded "a disgrace" by the CFMEU.
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