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A Victorian employer that was fined $100,000 over a contractor's death has failed to convince the Court of Appeal it had delegated, and therefore discharged, its safety obligations.
The gruesome workplace death of an apprentice could have been averted had a host employer spent as little as $15,000 on retrofitting a "deplorably" unsafe machine, the South Australian Coroner has found.
The annual salaries of Australia's leading OHS professionals have leapt by an average of nearly $65,000 over the last 12 months, in a dramatic turnaround from the same time last year, a SafeSearch survey has found.
Failure to enforce PPE ends in death and fine; Regulators investigating work-related fatalities and falls; and South Australian safety award winner stripped of prize.
Patrick Stevedoring has been fined $180,000 for discriminating against a worker who raised a health and safety issue, but the employer insists it has significantly improved its systems since the incident and supports "all safety improvement endeavours".
Employers that see older workers as an OHS risk are "ill informed and ignorant," according to the CFMEU's Dave Noonan, who says most mature-age construction workers have more OHS knowledge than a university graduate "still wet behind the ears".
A new decision from the NSW Industrial Court should ring alarm bells for directors of all companies, regardless of how remote they are from day-to-day work practices. The Court, in finding that the CEO of a large multi-national company was guilty of an OHS offence, also criticised the common reliance by directors on "alternative" defences to their charges.
