Employers should review their security systems to ensure they protect after-hours workers from robberies or break-ins following a ruling by the Queensland Supreme Court.
The WA Chamber of Minerals and Energy says substantial progress has been made in addressing fatigue risks in WA mining and warned against a "one size fits all" approach to roster cycles or shift regulations.
Employers cannot rely on workplace safety obligations to justify discriminatory conduct without properly investigating whether there is any real threat to people under their duty of care.
Worksafe WA and Victoria have reinforced the duty of care on employers to implement and enforce sun protection policies and to also be aware of heat stress.
Reducing the risk posed to workers from fatigue involves far more than just restructuring rosters and reducing hours, according to leading workplace fatigue consultant Peter Simpson.
In two recent cases, the SA Workers' Compensation Tribunal has relied on video evidence and expert medical opinion to reject two employees' claims for compensation.
The VTHC has released a new draft Charter that seeks to define the rights of union OHS representatives. The new Charter calls on employers to consult on OHS issues and provide access to all facilities available at the workplace, such as internet, email and digital cameras.
In a test of the OHS obligations of companies to non-employees at workplaces, the NSW IRC has fined a plumbing company for failing to maintain a defective water mixer in a retirement village that caused fatal burns to an elderly patient.
Union officials who have lost their federal entry permits have retained their right of entry under state OHS legislation in the Federal Government's final Cole bill, introduced to Parliament yesterday.
