A major government employer has been fined for safety breaches that led to contractors inadvertently electrifying taps and other metallic objects in four houses.
Employers have been warned, by both Safe Work Australia and unions, that they still have a WHS duty to protect workers from COVID-19 despite easing public health directions and orders.
A government department previously convicted over two fatalities has been handed a record-shattering workplace safety fine in Western Australia, this time after a worker was attacked and seriously injured by a problematic riot-control dog.
A company and its director have been fined a total of $126,000, after their electrical safety contraventions were referred to a WHS prosecutor. Another company was recently fined for similar breaches, after an apprentice was nearly killed.
Two companies that failed to arrange formal inspections of a large workplace tank have been fined for work health and safety breaches, after the structure failed and exposed workers to the risk of death.