Science and technology statement 1987-88 : a statement on the Commonwealth Government sector / prepared by the Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce.

  • Australia. Department of Industry, Technology, and Commerce
Date:
1988
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Credit: Science and technology statement 1987-88 : a statement on the Commonwealth Government sector / prepared by the Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A12 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ($ million) R&D S&T (including R&D) Proj. Proj. 83-84 84-85 85-86 86-87 87-88 86-87 87-88 Commonwealth sector direct expenditure ational ccupational cap. - - - 0.01 0.01 0.97 1.43 ealth & cur. - - - 0.09 0.09 4.29 4.57 fety Commission ext: - 0.17 pee | 0.24 0.24 1.43 1.41 ther Industrial elations ext.S - 0.09 - £0] 0.61 1.01 0.61 Total - 0.26 1.27 1.36 0.95 7.10 8.02 e page 51 for explanation of abbreviations. 12.1 DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS orksafe Australia (National Occupational Health and Safety Commission) mployment and Industrial Relations) 1e National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (Worksafe Australia) aims to courage, and work for, the spread of safety awareness and safety practices throughout ustralia by providing an authoritiative source of information, opinion and advice to dustry, unions, Governments, media and the community. Objectives of the National ccupational Health and Safety Commission Research Grants Scheme are: - to fund and generally support high quality research in the field of occupational health and safety according to a developed list of appropriate priorities; - to improve the quality of occupational health and safety research in Australia and strengthen Australian research capability; = to promote cooperation and liaison between the Commonwealth, the States, academic institutions and the private sector in occupational health and safety research: and = consistent with the functions of the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission, to support research which would lead to an improvement in the health, safety and welfare of people at work. rants for 1987-88 include projects on safe handling of pesticides, hazards of asbestos sulation in buildings, asbestos fibre counter proficiency, machinery noise control, and achinery safety guarding systems. Institute research programs include cell culture methods r investigating chemical toxicity, cadmium toxicity and mutagenicity, studies on ; utagenicity and carcinogenicity of chemicals such as pesticides and polycyclic aza-aromatic mpounds and their metabolites.
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