An employer's efforts to eliminate a known safety risk have helped to substantially reduce a penalty levied in the NSW IRC, even though the measures were unsuccessful in preventing an incident.
Four workers sacked for lunchtime drinking just days after their employer implemented a "dry site" policy have today had their reinstatement upheld by an AIRC full bench.
NOHSC is inviting comments on its proposed amendments to the national exposure standards for crystalline silica, following a review of the current interim standards.
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has found employers do not have to provide rehabilitation programs to injured workers after they have been made redundant.
A $90,000 fine levied on the employer of two security guards attacked in bad lighting highlights the importance of employers ensuring they act on known risks to safety.
In one of the first decisions of its kind, the WA IRC has ordered that two building sites be covered by a union agreement because of their serious OHS deficiencies.
The NSW Labor Council has joined a global campaign to raise awareness of the risks of overwork, after finding that work deaths from heart attack or stroke in the State rose 30 per cent in 2001-02.
A Private Members Bill to be introduced later this year would impose long prison terms and multi-million dollar fines on employers and executives found negligently liable for workplace fatalities.
