Synergy Scaffolding Services Pty Ltd has been fined $2 million for reckless conduct that killed an 18-year-old worker, two days after his birthday, and endangered many others, at a NSW site.
A PCBU has been fined $400,000 after a worker sustained fatal injuries falling from an unsuitable ladder, with a court slamming its site induction for being "so inadequate" that it failed to detect that the worker did not have a "white card".
An integrated workplace system combining safety and injury prevention with health and wellbeing is key to preventing injuries and illnesses and ensuring return on investment, according to one of seven principles underpinning an impending major healthy work strategy.
As part of a major project aimed at helping employers redesign work to prevent psychological injuries - supported by three leading Australian universities - researchers have identified the main causes of the high psychological injury rate in the health sector.
A PCBU being prosecuted over a fatality has successfully challenged some of the allegations against it, including that it failed to adopt certain "common sense" safety measures to mitigate the risk of workers being crushed during maintenance tasks.
A PCBU that failed to clarify its plant isolation responsibilities to all personnel has been found guilty of WHS breaches, after a subcontractor died in a tank and his two would-be rescuers were seriously injured.
Qantas has failed to block two of four WHS charges alleging it engaged in discriminatory conduct towards an elected health and safety representative for taking actions relating to the cleaning of planes arriving from a COVID-19 hot spot.
Just two weeks after expressing her concern and dismay at the number of fall-from-height cases coming before her court, a judge has handed down another $800,000 pre-discount fine in a case where "glaringly" obvious risks were ignored.