Measures for preventing workplace fatigue range from providing appropriate staffing levels to digitally locking out workers, according to WHS lawyers, who warn the issue is dangerously overlooked in many organisations, and highlight a safety prosecution that reads like a "how-to" guide to tackling fatigue.
A PCBU's failure to risk assess how its work interacted with neighbouring properties, public access areas and obstructions, posed "extreme" harm to others, a court has found in convicting and fining it $300,000.
A PCBU, with a "haphazard" approach towards its safety duty, has been handed a pre-discount fine of $600,000 after a precariously balanced 800kg excavator bucket fell from the back of a truck and fatally crushed a labourer.
A court has criticised the poor WHS knowledge of an employer and its managers, finding they unlawfully forced union officials to provide a new right-of-entry notice in order to inspect a suspected safety breach they observed while investigating another safety issue.
An employer has been deemed vicariously liable for the actions of a worker who negligently failed to safely reverse a forklift, causing a collision that injured one of his colleagues.
