At the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, which kicked off in Sydney today, the International Labour Organisation will announce a new strategy to accelerate health and safety progress. The ILO warns that work-related accidents and diseases are causing the deaths of nearly three million workers each year.
A worker who became the sole director of a company in mysterious circumstances, and played no role in its running, has been fined $120,000 for breaching his WHS due diligence duties, after a teenage apprentice fell 12 metres.
A Bill re-establishing the NSW Industrial Court, with judicial officers with special expertise in WHS matters, will improve workplace safety standards and remove a deterrent to seeking "workplace justice", the State Government has claimed.
A worker was unfairly sacked, for damaging a client's Mercedes, by a decision maker who wrongly took her suggestion that certain WHS measures could have prevented the incident as an attempt to shift the blame, a commission has found.
Company executives must ensure systems are in place to deal with non-compliance with safety requirements and those systems are properly monitored, a regulator has stressed after an employer was handed a record recklessness fine relating to the deaths of four police officers.
An employer has been convicted of category-3 WHS breaches for failing to monitor a labour-hire worker's tasks at a placement, where he was injured performing work outside of the scope of his experience.
A worker's psychological injuries are impacting on his physical condition but he is still entitled to two sets of incapacity payments, an appeals commission has confirmed.
A PCBU has been fined $450,000 after a worker sustained serious injuries in an area of its site depicted as a "safe zone", 12 months after an almost identical incident occurred.
