Occupational Safety Research in Australia

In this issue... Key occupational injury organisations; Role of design in serious work-related injury (NOHSC); Role of machinery design in farm injury among males; Contribution of coroners to designing for safety; Regulatory approach to minimising design-related occupational injury; Retrofitting of safe tractor access platforms; Influence of product design on risk perception and behaviour; Design issues and mining injuries; Engineering solutions to manual handling and fall hazards in plasterers; PhD students involved in occupational injury research; Safe tractor assessment rating system; Occupational injury websites; Product Safety Study; From the Coroner: all terrain vehicles and scuba diving; A picture of Australia’s children; Keeping kids safe on Western Australia’s roads; Dishwasher detergent injuries; Next world injury conference; Survey of Aboriginal children and young people; Injury seminars on the Internet; Stay on Your Feet WA; Draft swimming pool standards; Information sharing; Mexican ICE meeting.

ISSN 1039 4885; Cat. no. INJ 74; 24pp.; INTERNET ONLY