A national employer charged with workplace safety breaches, involving non-compliant windows in its premises, has spent $1.4 million on remedial works and entered an undertaking to escape prosecution, after a child was injured.
Employers have been urged to review their rostering practices and introduce strategies to improve team dynamics and efficiency, after an Australian study found junior doctors who work long hours are at high risk of suicidal ideation.
A young worker unaccustomed to full-time employment and early starts was fatigued from work when he crashed his car and died on his way home from work, a commission has found.
Workplace health and safety representatives are being encouraged to direct the cessation of "all non-critical outdoor work" where the air quality is classified as "very poor" or worse from bushfire smoke.
A regulator has alerted workers to their WHS duties pertaining to the coronavirus outbreak, while a local council has committed some $2 million to safety improvements and enforceable undertakings after being accused of failing to prepare asbestos registers and other WHS breaches.
Work injuries do not have to be the sole cause of a worker's incapacity for their condition to be considered work-related, a commission president has confirmed in a journey dispute.
Employers should consider updating their fitness for work and leave policies, adding provisions for "quarantining" workers, and reviewing workplace hygiene protocols, in response to the coronavirus outbreak, Ashurst partner Trent Sebbens says in this Q&A with OHS Alert.
Employers contemplating investing in wearable technology to prevent musculoskeletal injuries should identify the specific WHS gaps in their operations that the technology can fill, an icare injury prevention and intervention specialist says.
In this much anticipated report, OHS Alert outlines all the major legislative changes and court decisions on workplace health and safety and workers' comp issues in the final quarter of 2019.
