A PCBU has been handed a pre-discount fine of $200,000, after two people entered an explosion's exclusion zone, and one of them was forced to dive behind a vehicle to avoid flyrock.
A major study spanning the European Union has found the COVID-19 pandemic was a "formative event" for workers' mental health. It found many workers experienced increasing stress, mainly linked to two factors, and employers must continue to proactively monitor potentially health-damaging working conditions.
Two company managers' needless insistence that a union official clarify the particulars of his WHS entry permit was a "gossamer-thin" justification for delaying his safety inspection, a court has found in a scathing ruling reiterating the practical purpose of permits.
A major supermarket did not breach its safety duty of care to a store manager, who allegedly suffered an overuse injury, by failing to prevent her from working "excessive" hours in the lead up to a major audit, a court has found.
Employers trapped by ineffective "intergenerational" workplace safety investigations should flip their objectives and not be "so concerned with the why", an investigations expert says.
A business partner has successfully applied to commit $380,000 to WHS initiatives to avoid being prosecuted over the death of a worker in an exclusion zone that wasn't physically marked.
The fine imposed on an employer that failed to fully implement a mandatory safety measure, because it ran out of the required materials, has been increased more than five-fold on appeal, with a judge stressing penalties must be significant enough to dissuade others from "cutting corners".
