A Bunbury electrical contracting business and one of its employees have been fined a total of $44,800 over the 2013 electrocution of an 18-year-old trades assistant in the roof space of a home in East Bunbury. [ + ]

The National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA) has kicked off the 2015 Market Monitor survey with the opportunity to win a trip to Cape Town to attend the 2016 NECA convention. [ + ]

The NSW building and construction industry has received a boost, through the opening of a new $10 million state-of-the-art training hub. [ + ]

Smartphone apps that connect motorists with privately owned parking spaces around major transport hubs and on-street parking guidance systems to help motorists find available parking faster can help solve some of greater Sydney's traffic problems, according to a National Roads & Motorists' Association (NRMA) report. [ + ]

Ian Harwood, M.AIRAH, associate director, Norman Disney & Young, has been elected as an interim board member pending AIRAH's annual general meeting later this year. [ + ]

Eskko Services has launched the first in a series of practical asset management workshops and training courses. Running in Perth (13-14 April) and Brisbane (16-17 April), Life Cycle Costing for Large Mining Equipment is a hands-on workshop that focuses on the application of life cycle costing methods for mining equipment. [ + ]

Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited has issued a recall on certain FG11 Falcon Sedan/Utility and SZ Territory vehicles built from 12 November 2013 through 13 October 2014. [ + ]

Will energy storage be the catalyst to changing from centralised to decentralised power systems? [ + ]

Western Australia's electrical regulator, Energy Safety, has imposed a new safety order following the explosion at the Morley Galleria Shopping Centre that left two electrical contractors dead and two others seriously injured. [ + ]

A new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) calls for all stakeholders in the electronic waste (e-waste) system to take greater responsibility, to combat the rising concern around its growth. [ + ]

Western Australia's electrical regulator, Energy Safety, has imposed a new safety order following the explosion at the Morley Galleria Shopping Centre that left two electrical contractors dead and two others seriously injured. [ + ]

Safe Work Australia has released the third paper in the series on the Role of Accounting in Work Health and Safety Governance - 'The business case for safe, healthy and productive work'. [ + ]

The global field service management market will be worth US$3.52 million by the year 2019, according to recent research published by Markets and Markets and reported by technology industry news experts WhaTech.

Australian motorists are putting lives at risk by driving on unsafe tyres. That's the damning verdict of a new survey which has revealed that 40% of drivers are unaware of legal tyre safety standards and almost one in three have driven on tyres they suspected were unroadworthy. [ + ]

The Federal Court of Australia has ordered by consent that Snowy Hydro pay total penalties of $400,000 for failing to comply with the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) dispatch instructions in contravention of the National Electricity Rules, in proceedings brought by the Australian Energy Regulator. [ + ]