Striving to be a leader across all aspects of sustainability, Amcor has set aggressive environmental targets in its Australasian operations and is taking a leadership role in working with its customers to assist them in adopting sustainable packaging products.
PIQET is an independently developed business tool that is used for rapid environmental impact assessments of packaging, now available from the Sustainable Packaging Alliance.
Slip and trip accidents, though often seen as trivial, are avoidable and serious problems in warehousing and storage.
Fears have been voiced that imported Chinese vegetables sold in Australia could also be contaminated with melamine.
Port Lincoln Tuna Processors has been convicted and fined in the SA Industrial Relations Court over an incident where one of its workers had her fingertip amputated.
SAI Global is an applied information services company that helps organizations manage risk, achieve compliance and drive business improvement.
A new ISO standard provides a comprehensive methodology for assessing risk and managing work in cold environments.
Some of the most horrific workplace injuries in a food production environment can involve hot liquids such as oil, water or various production mixtures as well as steam.
Members of the food industry proposing changes or additions to the Food Standards Code will have their applications assessed more efficiently due to recent amendments to the FSANZ Act.
When Wolf Blass needs to move from bottling red to white, for example, it needs to flush all traces of the earlier variety without wasting a drop of the precious stuff. They recently installed a pigging system to do just that.