Browsing: Enforceable undertakings (NSW)



FRI
7:53AM

Ausgrid enters EU, spends $14m on rectifications over incident preceding fatality

An electricity company has spent nearly $14 million on a safety overhaul, and committed a further $1 million to safety undertakings to avoid prosecution over an electric-shock incident that occurred just months before one of its workers died in similar circumstances.



THU
3:47PM

PCBU enters $1.7m EU in lieu of WHS prosecution over fatal 2019 crushing

A commercial construction and contracting company has entered into a $1.7 million enforceable undertaking that includes developing a process for collecting worker insights on safety, and implemented more than $1.6 million worth of additional health and safety rectifications, after the fatal crushing of a worker in 2019.


FRI
2:47PM

Record $3m-plus WHS EU entered after scissor attack

A major NSW employer has avoided a WHS prosecution, involving a scissor attack that injured several workers, by entering a WHS undertaking, with a State-record spend of more than $3 million, aimed at tackling work-related violence through "whole of system thinking".


MON
2:01PM

PCBU enters EU, co-accused found guilty of WHS breach

A local council has committed to overhauling its contractor management practices, and developing an automated WHS induction program, after being accused, along with two other WHS duty holders, of contraventions resulting in a powerlines incident and serious injuries.





MON
12:38PM

Ladders "the last option" in WHS hierarchy; and more

  • Ladders are "the last option", PCBUs told after death;
  • Rio Tinto's former HSE chief appointed SWA chair; and
  • PCBUs' "attitudes" to affect WHS-undertaking decisions in NSW.

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