Work practices that cause excessive exposure to dust can damage a worker's health, and can bring a lot of issues in many industries, not only from construction and mining. Lung disorders, as a result of atmospheric dust inhalation, are obviously a serious workplace health and safety problem.

WorkCover NSW has issued a bulletin to businesses to be conscious of the risks of working during windy conditions. John Watson, GM of WorkCover's Work Health and Safety Division said, “High gusts of winds are unpredictable, and cause a range of serious workplace hazards associated with flying objects, working at heights and an increased risk of collapsed structures.”

Certain incidences like contact with overhead power lines may cause truck tyres, cranes and other heavy vehicles to be caught on fire and thus lead to explosion. As of to date, five workers have already been killed over the past years. A number of more workers were injured as heat develops in tyres that may lead to a phenomenon known as pyrolysis.

James Packer, owner of a proposed casino in Sydney, and his company Crown Limited, applied to the NSW government to allow smoking inside the proposed casino building. They asked that the entire gaming floor, which could be as large as two and a half rugby league fields, be exempted from a no-smoking ban.

Investigating the emissions of nanomaterials from composites and other solid particles during machining process along with evaluation of safety of physicochemical hazards was the purpose of publishing such report.