Browsing: Authority/inspectorate (NSW)




THU
3:56PM

Psychosocial breaches revealed in case studies; and more

  • Comcare WHS case studies reveal psychosocial failings;
  • WHS regulations and protections covered by gold and lead probe; and
  • ACTU re-demands stone bans after alarming US findings.

THU
11:47AM

PCBUs have a WHS duty to manage risks posed by common property, company fined over death

A PCBU breached its WHS duties by failing to alert an industrial complex's owners corporation or strata manager to the dangers posed by a damaged gate, which ultimately fell and killed a worker, a court has found in convicting and fining the PCBU $375,000.




WED
1:16PM

PCBU cleared of safety breaches after judge examines the experience and training of its workers

An employer charged with WHS breaches after a blast hurled rocks at workers inside an exclusion zone has escaped conviction, with a regulator failing to prove beyond reasonable doubt that appointing a supervisor with less than "optimal" experience was a breach of the employer's duty.


TUE
1:36PM

MON
11:45AM

Reckless use of high-risk equipment deserved maximum WHS penalty, record fine imposed

In an extremely rare development, a judge has found the WHS offences of a reckless PCBU and a "worker" deserved the highest available penalties, totalling $3.15 million. They were charged over the grisly death of a man who was dragged into a woodchipper, and whose disappearance went unnoticed because the PCBU's systems were "so haphazard".


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.


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