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An employer's fatality-related OHS fine should include a component for general deterrence to alert the mining industry to the need to adopt adequate systems for inherently dangerous tasks "at all stages of the operation", the NSW Industrial Court has found.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has renewed its warning on Infinity-branded electrical cables, which were installed in thousands of commercial buildings and are expected to start becoming brittle and create safety risks within a matter of months.
An employee who had a stroke while showering in a hotel room has been awarded workers' compensation, after a tribunal found the High Court's motel s-x decision showed the relationship between a work-interval activity and an injury can be temporal rather than causal.
A NSW employer has been fined $67,000 after two employees, whose supervisors were in a management meeting, mixed incompatible dangerous goods and created a toxic gas that led to seven workers, including themselves, being hospitalised.
Western Australia will amend existing safety Codes of Practice, rather than introduce a new Code, to improve FIFO workers' mental health, according to the State Government's response to the inquiry into the issue. The Government declined to support a recommendation to acknowledge that FIFO workers are at risk of suicide.
A Bill restoring HSR and entry powers passed Queensland Parliament last night, but a clause imposing additional injury-notification requirements on employers was defeated.
This update outlines all the most important workplace safety and workers' compensation developments from July, August and September, including one of the highest safety fines in Australian history, and legislative changes in every jurisdiction.
