Industry News

WorkCover New South Wales is calling for more rigorous safety standards for the timber industry, after a disquieting 700 injuries were reported from manual handling in the last three years.

Hairdressers are constantly in contact with dangerous and potentially deadly chemicals as a routine part of their job, but the same chemicals could have disastrous uses if they were to fall into the wrong hands.

As part of Australian Engineering Week, Dubbo has announced the Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) will host the 2013 regional Great Engineering Challenge in the city.

Despite the efforts of some companies which have imposed quotas to boost the number of female employees, federal statistics show women still make up only 20 per cent of the workforce in key scientific areas including engineering and IT.

Performance sports-car manufacturers Lotus are looking to expand their ranks, with the announcement they are scouring the globe for 45 new engineers to design a new suite of cars for the once-British brand.

A mining company in Western Australia is reporting a significant new find of high-grade nickel laying north-east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

With protesters still raging over the approval of an iron mine in Tasmania last week, the Federal Government has green-lit another project to dig up iron ore in the Tarkine region.

With many sceptical about increasing foreign ownership of Australian agricultural lands, it may be surprising to know some in the mining industry cannot get enough overseas investment, in fact it relies on it for survival, according to one industry expert.

The Queensland Premier has blamed the Federal Government's lack of approval for new mines in the worsening unemployment situation in his state.

Several major Australian industries have reported a slow-down in profit and productivity linked to uneasy commodity prices.

Figures are out showing Australians have taken to solar energy with great gusto, a report shows how eager people are to cut down their electricity bills.

Work on the massive Abbot Point coal port expansion project will possibly continue regardless of changes in the political landscape this year, with the Environment Minister still set to make a decision this week.

German scientists have demonstrated a new technique for harvesting electricity from ocean waves.

Australian researchers have made progress on a new technology to greatly increase the capacity and efficiency of many electrical energy devices.

Fortescue Metals is facing claims it traded during insolvency during the recent decline in iron ore, which may have resulted in a contract falling-through to the tune of more than $8 million.

OM Manganese has been handed a hefty fine for desecrating a sacred Aboriginal site in the Northern Territory.

Port Macquarie will be the site of a multi-million dollar Health Education campus, with the possibility of more such spending to come.

Australian researchers may have made a discovery that could keep older people limber for longer.

It seems one sexually-transmitted disease is becoming harder and harder to control, according to health authorities.

The Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne has begun an advertising campaign to find a group of former cancer patients whose sperm is being held by the hospital.