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A NSW employer is expanding its due diligence program for senior managers as part of a $200,000 WHS enforceable undertaking (EU), which provides valuable insight into the EU process and how the employer tackled height risks.
Employers are being reminded, on World Mental Health Day today, that they will receive an average return of $2.30 for every dollar they invest in workplace mental health initiatives, while those that do nothing are likely to have higher absence and claims rates.
A new Safe Work Australia report has found that regulators conducted 135,000 workplace visits and handed out nearly 47,000 notices in 2012-13, but the number of reactive visits is decreasing in some jurisdictions.
Workplace fatality rate creeping up in NSW; Presumptive cancer comp laws to cover all WA firefighters; and Queensland launches bullying and harassment review.
Victorian employers have been fined nearly $500,000 after an excavator operator was killed in a landslide, and other incidents, while a man has been fined for obstructing safety inspectors.
A full Federal Court has found that an injured worker should be paid the equivalent of just 12 hours of pay per week in compensation, in overturning an earlier decision to base her "normal weekly earnings" on the hours she worked before a 2008 car accident.
The first phase of a multiple coronial inquest into the quad bike-related deaths of nine Queenslanders - including three children and a number of workers - has found that "tragic incidents" involving the controversial vehicles often occur in benign conditions.
