Browsing: WHS decisions (SA)


THU
12:39PM

Over-reliance on engineering controls "misguided", duty holders told to foster WHS cultures

An employer's multiple efforts to engineer out a safety risk failed to prevent a worker's serious crush injuries because of the absence of supplementary administrative controls, a court has found in fining the employer.


THU
3:38PM

Complying with high-risk rules and holding safety meetings could have prevented serious injuries

A magistrate has slammed a company's "casual approach" to WHS, which "fell well below the standards required" of it, finding a worker would have been conscious of and avoided placing himself in a hazardous position if proper systems had been implemented.


WED
2:37PM

PCBUs urged to identify workplace violence risks after employer sentenced for assault-related WHS breaches

An employer has been fined after failures in its communication protocols led to a client assaulting a worker, who should have been told the client had a history of inappropriate behaviour.


FRI
12:52PM

Major employer's WHS consultation process upheld in 145-worker challenge to vaccine mandate

A tribunal has thrown out a joint bid by 145 workers to overturn their employer's vaccine mandate by claiming it involved WHS consultation flaws. The tribunal stressed that the feedback process in such circumstances enables "contribution", not "collaboration".


TUE
3:47PM

Worker sentenced for fatal recklessness; and more

  • Worker sentenced for fatal recklessness after remittal;
  • WHS initiatives build on Gayle's Law in SA; and
  • Are you sending your ACT workers to legitimate asbestos courses?


TUE
12:35PM

Court not satisfied workers enabled to identify hazards

An employer is being forced to re-defend its training and safety systems, and to prove it was entitled to rely on a worker to identify safety hazards that required him to seek help, under a retrial ordered in relation to an unrestrained load falling out of a trailer.


FRI
12:57PM

WHS warnings issued after child-related cases and assaults

PCBUs have been reminded of their WHS duties to children, after one entity was fined over a drowning death and another over a forklift joyride. Meanwhile, the ACT has launched a campaign against workplace violence, and reminded employers of the new WHS duty to report "actual or suspected" incidents of workplace s-xual assault.



TUE
12:46PM

Teenager's scalp ripped off by plant, court calls for better safety cultures for young workers

A court has stressed the importance of employers instilling a "safety consciousness" in young workers, in sentencing a PCBU whose safety breaches brought "shock, trauma, ongoing pain and disfigurement" to a teenage worker in an instant.


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