Two PCBUs have been handed pre-discount fines totalling $460,000 for their involvement in the death of a delivery driver. One of the PCBUs failed to comply with its consultation duties, which could have been satisfied through a simple email enquiry, a judge ruled.
A PCBU that failed to prevent workers from taking contaminated clothing home, or tell a labourer he needed to be clean-shaven when wearing a mask, has been convicted and fined for category-3 WHS breaches.
An employer that was found to have negligently caused a worker to crash his car while driving home from a 12-hour shift has overturned the ruling, with an appeals court finding: there was insufficient evidence to suggest fatigue caused the crash; and the employer had fulfilled its common law duty of care.
A worker who was sacked for engaging in a verbal altercation with railway personnel on his way to work has been reinstated, with a commission finding his actions didn't warrant his dismissal and he didn't pose a safety risk to his colleagues, despite his history of "aggressive outbursts".
A PCBU that failed to properly assess the risks posed by its new work system and equipment has been handed a pre-discount fine of $240,000, after a worker fell and was impaled by a steel bar.
A company that was fined heavily over the death of a teenager, in the notorious Macquarie Park, NSW scaffolding collapse, has been permanently banned from performing contract work, while its director has been disqualified for a decade.
A PCBU has been handed a pre-discount fine of $540,000, following the death of a subcontracted site manager in a 19-metre fall, with a court finding it failed to enforce both its, and the subcontractor's, safe work method statements.
A major employer has been handed a pre-discount WHS fine of $800,000, after a worker was electrocuted just nine weeks after a similar incident that "should have been a significant wake-up call".
A judge has rebuked a PCBU for claiming a WHS regulator should have done more to educate operators like it in an emerging sector, finding the PCBU "clearly" failed to keep abreast of its safety duties, and fining it $180,000 over a four-metre fall.
