Occupational health and safety concerns are generating discussion in the vocal MasterChef community, with viewers questioning whether water visible on the floor of the show’s set represents a hazard for the contestants.
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How BP blew it
An excellent investigation by the WSJ into how BP’s cost-cutting and lax safety standards set the scene for disaster on-board the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Work harder? You must be mad
The Rudd Government needs to accept that productivity and mental health are long term problems that need strategies that extend beyond their next term in office, writes Kevin Jones.
Pissed and stoned at work? There are more important things to worry about…
Is drug and alcohol testing at work really something that employers should be concerned about? Many other issues — life threatening hazards like chemicals and machinery — have a more significant impact on the workplace.
Silicon sweatshops
Global Post is running a five-part investigation into the dubious labour practices of the Third World factories manufacturing the First World’s favorite high-tech gadgets. How cool does your iPhone look now?
Why directors and liabilities are like lightning strikes
Company directors are six times more likely to be hit by lightning than to be prosecuted under our liability laws, writes Adam Schwab.
Train drivers: the silent victims of suicide
A horrific reality for railroad workers all over the world is dealing with the all-too-common occurrences of suicide attempts, where drivers have an exclusive front-seat view as the tragedy unfolds. Traumatised drivers share their silent suffering.
Why is the NYT such a dangerous place to work?
Recently rescued New York Times reporter James Farrell is the at least the fifth journo from the paper to be kidnapped or arrested in as many years. Is the Times doing enough to protect its intrepid investigators?
25 years on, still waiting for justice in Bhopal
25 years after the world’s biggest industrial disaster occurred at a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India, the company and its former head, Warren Anderson, continue to evade authorities and justice remains elusive for the 556,000 injured 20,000 killed.
Journalists are people too
The caricature of reporters as conniving, self-interested louts plays nicely for Hollywood, but in reality, journalists are real people who regularly come face-to-face with catastrophe and tragedy. Is that the untold story?
AmeriGas gives workers health ultimatum
One US company has told workers that if they don’t get regular medical check-ups, they will forfeit their health insurance.
Japanese working themselves to death
In Japan, cases of job-related mental illness and karoshi — death through overwork — are on the rise, as the recession hits hard.
Olympic tragedy: how China’s top dancer ended up in a wheelchair
Chinese dancer Liu Yan was set to perform at the Beijing opening ceremony, until she was paralysed during rehearsals.
Burying the OHS National Harmonisation Agenda
Amidst all this talk of the global economic meltdown, Melbourne Cup and the Obama victory, yet another item on the Rudd Government’s national agenda has been buried, writes Alena Titterton.
