The employer of a WHS risk manager, who was prosecuted for failing to finalise a risk assessment for an infectious disease, has successfully applied to enter a $950,000 undertaking to halt the proceedings against it, in relation to the same matter.
A PCBU has been permitted to enter a WHS undertaking, with a minimum spend of nearly $3 million, in lieu of prosecution over a fatality in Queensland, which occurred prior to the State banning undertakings for alleged offences involving deaths.
An employer has lost its latest bid to enter a fatality-related WHS undertaking, with an appeals court upholding a finding that the fatal risks were clearly foreseeable.
A local council has agreed to spend more than $410,000 on safety rectifications to avoid prosecution for breaches of WHS regulations on safe work method statements, which carry maximum fines of just $30,000 each.
A superior court has upheld the rejection of an employer's bid to enter a WHS undertaking in lieu of prosecution, after hearing that the relevant incident involved a fatality, and workers regularly accessed the hazardous area where the death occurred.
Two employers have committed to taking a total of 10 steps to reduce the risks of working with plant and equipment, after two machine operators were seriously injured in unguarded plant.
Two employers will spend nearly $440,000 on developing a new Australian Standard and numerous other safety initiatives, after entering into enforceable undertakings relating to a forklift injury and hair entanglement.
Thiess Pty Ltd has entered into its third enforceable undertaking - and escaped prosecution - relating to the incident-ridden construction of Brisbane's Airport Link, this time after a worker was killed.
In only the third case of its type, a Queensland employer has entered a $200,000 enforceable undertaking under the mirror WHS laws, after two workers were injured when a tyre exploded.