Telstra is revising its health and safety requirements for contractors, after one of three safety-related research projects - undertaken as part of an enforceable undertaking - advised the telco to make its HSE framework and other safety documents available to third-party contractors who might work on its assets.
A NSW employer has been fined $160,000 for safety breaches, after one of its supervisors - who misunderstood his safety role - lost his arm in a crane incident, which killed another worker and seriously injured three more.
The definition of "worker" in Western Australia will be changed - for workers' compensation purposes - to explicitly exclude independent contractors, under a plan to replace the State's 30-year-old workers' comp Act with a new statute.
A NSW principal contractor has become the second entity to be fined over the death of a company director, after the Industrial Court found it failed to ensure a contractor's 42 safe work method statements were relevant to the site where the incident occurred.
A principal contractor, which failed to ensure a safety warning was conveyed to all site visitors, has been found vicariously liable for an employee's carelessness.
A NSW employer and its director have become the sixth and seventh parties to be fined over a workplace fall, which left an inexperienced construction worker with severe head injuries.
A NSW employer and its sole director have been fined a total of nearly $290,000, for engaging in sham contracting and undermining safety by failing to pay workers for "waiting time".
Upstream duty holders must look beyond Australian Standards, report says; and Essential safety news from five jurisdictions.
Road transport drivers will have the discretion to amend an employer or hirer's "safe driving plan" to include additional rest breaks, while employers will be required to put drivers through OHS training, under a draft remuneration order released for public comment.
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