Workplace safety
Miles underground, sleeping at work: How miners try to dodge the virus
Mining sites would be a perfect breeding ground for COVID-19. But sending employees to work from home isn't an option. For much of the year, it is their home; where they eat, sleep and work in close proximity for weeks at a time.
- by David Stringer
Latest
Coronavirus pandemic
'Ignore the hysteria and take vitamins': Salvos chief's advice to staff
The head of the Salvation Army’s employment wing has angered some staff by declaring that the coronavirus was blown up by “hysteria and panic”.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Queensland courts
Queensland worker's family's big win in $2.5m claim against employer
Judge Martin Burns also slammed the inquiries into the accident by employer John Holland and workplace safety authority Comcare as "a depiction of the facts that was misleading".
- by Toby Crockford
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Everyone’s a socialist in a pandemic
All it took was a global epidemic of potentially unprecedented scale and severity and suddenly it's like we're all turning into Denmark.
- by Farhad Manjoo
Tragedy
Wife says man killed in conveyor accident was 'the rock of our family'
Tim Fiechtner, 38, was killed at a Queensland Organics fertiliser factory in the Moreton Bay suburb of Narangba on Tuesday.
- by Toby Crockford
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Brisbane
Man trapped in conveyor belt at fertiliser plant dies
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland inspectors are investigating the incident involving the man.
- by Toby Crockford
Coronavirus pandemic
Workplace versus coronavirus: ‘No one has a playbook for this’
Global white-collar companies have rarely grappled with this scale of disruption — or the level of fear that has gripped workers.
- by Mike Isaac, David Yaffe-Bellany and Karen Weise
Mine safety
Mine operator charged by regulator over Queensland miner's death
Mine operator Anglo American is accused of breaching its obligations under the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999.
- by Toby Crockford and Jocelyn Garcia
Good Weekend
Sixteen zoo staff. More than 200 animals. An encroaching fire. The rescue operation that became the pride of Mogo
With bushfires bearing down on them, staff members at a NSW South Coast zoo had to choose whether to save themselves or stay and protect their animal charges. It was no contest.
- by Jane Cadzow
Australian Council of Trade Unions
'Unacceptable': Harassment compensation claims rising and affecting more women
The number of mental-health related workers' compensation claims, which cost more and take longer to resolve, are on the rise.
- by Nick Bonyhady
Dreamworld
Dreamworld faces up to $3 million fine if prosecuted over ride deaths
On Monday, the coronial findings were released from the inquest into the deaths of Cindy Low, Kate Goodchild, Luke Dorsett and Roozi Araghi.
- by Toby Crockford and Indigo Kuss-Patterson