Browsing: Authority/inspectorate (QLD)


THU
10:39AM

Fatal risk in CBD high-rise foreseeable but not addressed

A second duty holder has been fined over the death of an 80-year-old workplace visitor in a disused stairwell that posed an obvious risk of falling or entrapment, while a business has been fined over a fatality that followed its failure to identify the qualifications and competencies required for high-risk tasks.


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3:29PM

MON
3:15PM

FRI
1:32PM

WHS Bill passes with insurance ban, HSR protections and plan to expand manslaughter provisions

A major work health and safety Bill has passed in Queensland, with amendments aimed at facilitating a plan that could extend industrial manslaughter provisions to bystander deaths, and ensure multiple duty holders can be charged with manslaughter after a fatality.





WED
2:24PM

Worker fined over crane death, two related industrial manslaughter prosecutions ongoing

A crane operator who failed to maintain a line of sight with a pedestrian colleague has been fined over the man's death. A PCBU and a manager have been charged with the industrial manslaughter of the colleague.


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2:06PM

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2:07PM

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