http://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/media_centreComcare news rsshttp://comcare.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0007/57940/rss.gifhttp://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/news_listing<p>The Australian Postal Corporation (APC) has been fined $160,000 following Comcare action over a forklift incident at the Toowoomba Mail Centre in Queensland three years ago.<br /></p> http://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/media_centre/australian_postal_corporation_fined_over_forklift_accident <p>Australia’s federal health and safety regulator, Comcare, today accepted a court enforceable undertaking from Transpacific Industries Pty Ltd (TPI) relating to three separate workplace incidents where TPI employees were injured.</p>http://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/media_centre/comcare_accepts_enforceable_undertaking_from_transpacific_industries_pty_ltd <p style="text-align: left;">Australia’s federal work health and safety regulator, Comcare has filed legal proceedings against Thales Australia Limited alleging it had breached federal work health and safety laws. <br></p>http://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/media_centre/court_action_over_serious_injury_to_thales_contractor<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">A NSW woman has been sentenced to carry out two Community Service Orders totalling 230 hours for two offences relating to submitting a forged medical certificate and providing false statements to support a continuing Comcare claim.</P>http://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/media_centre/fraud_conviction_over_comcare_claim<p>Workers can put their health at great risk if they sit at their desks all day without a break.</p>http://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/media_centre/sitting_still_a_danger_to_our_health,_says_comcare<p>People struggling to get enthusiastic about a return to work on Monday morning should take advice from Australia’s federal health and safety regulator, Comcare.</p>http://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/media_centre/work_goood_for_you_-_comcare<p>Outstanding work health and safety initiatives were recognised at the annual Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission (SRCC) Safety Awards, presented at a gala dinner held last night at Peninsula, in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne.</p>http://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/media_centre/srcc_safety_awards_2011_winners_announced<meta><meta><meta><meta> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <style> <!--> </style> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <p>The Australian Army has been fined $150,000 following Comcare action over a food allergy incident at a cadet camp in Queensland two years ago.</p>http://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/media_centre/fine_over_peanut_allergy_incident_at_army_cadet_camp<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Comcare has accepted a Court enforceable undertaking from the Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd (ARTC) in regard to an alleged failure to observe its duties under the <EM>Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991</EM> (the OHS Act).</P>http://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/media_centre/action_over_rail_access_road_deaths<P>Comcare has accepted a court-enforceable undertaking from the Department of Defence after it allegedly failed to observe its duties under federal workplace safety laws.</P>http://www.comcare.gov.au/news__and__media/media_centre/defence_eu_release