NECA concerned over government's OHS review
08 July, 2008
NECA, through its NSW chapter, is to make formal written submissions to the review panel established by the Australian government to examine how to harmonise Australia’s OHS laws.
Company fined for electrical balancing act
19 June, 2008
A Campbellfield company has pleaded guilty to seven workplace health and safety charges after two Chinese workers in Australia on section 457 visas suffered serious injuries in 2006.
Electrical engineer honoured
12 June, 2008
Professor Vic Gosbell was honoured by being awarded the M A Sargent Medal for the electrical engineer of the year for 2007, by the Board of Colleges of Electrical Engineers of Engineers Australia, in Melbourne on Friday 6 June.
Dimmable light wins best new product award
02 June, 2008
The Megaman Dimmerable Reflector lamp range has received this year’s ‘Best New Product’ award in the lighting category at designEX 2008.
NICTA now a Registered Research Agency
09 May, 2008
NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) research institute, is now authorised as a Registered Research Agency (RRA).
Leveraging returns on smart meter infrastructure
08 May, 2008
Melbourne-based smart grid and wireless sensor network provider, Telepathx has announced that it will begin conditional licensing of its RFID, wireless sensor network and communications aggregation products to smart meter and BPL manufacturers.
Employment predicted to be on a downward trend
21 April, 2008 by Paul Stathis
A fall-out in general employment is inevitable in view of the impact on high-end employment from the Reserve Bank’s continuing rate rises and other global issues.
Surviving 'corporate adolescence' - transitioning from an SME to a larger business
27 February, 2008
A 2007 study by credit checking firm Veda Advantage has debunked the myth that the majority of companies close in their first year
Online technical certification
27 February, 2008 | Supplied by: George Brown College
Study online, at your own pace, and earn your technical certificate in electronics, electromechanical and programmable logic controllers.
Lampertz appoints Rittal distributor for ANZ
08 February, 2008
Rittal, a leading international system supplier of housing and enclosure technologies, has announced that it will become the sole Australian and New Zealand agent for the Lampertz range of IT solutions.
Mandatory Greenpower offer
30 January, 2008
The ACT will soon be leading the country in 'green' energy consumption, after the Chief Minister and Minister for the Environment, Water and Climate Change, Jon Stanhope announced the mandatory offering of accredited GreenPower electricity to Canberrans.
Australian building industry calls for climate change action
29 January, 2008
The building sector can and should play a role in achieving the deep greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that science tells us are necessary to combat the threat of global warming
Skills shortage tackled with in-house apprentice program
25 January, 2008
Emerson Network Power has launched its own in-house apprentice program in Australia to overcome the lack of skills in its core business areas.
Discussion open for ACT electricity feed-in tariff
14 January, 2008
A discussion paper on the feasibility and nature of an electricity feed-in tariff for the ACT has been issued by the government.
Copper prices spark new crime wave
11 January, 2008 by Paul Stathis, Editor
Last year, police all over the world were inundated with reports of theft of copper from areas as diverse as water pipes from buildings, electrical wiring from substations, conductors from railway lines and even bells from churches
