Browsing: Authority/inspectorate (NT)

• First engineered stone dust death reported in Qld;
  
• ICAC releases "learnings" from SafeWork SA probe; and
  
• Relying on visual barrier results in multiple WHS charges.

• Controls highlighted after tank death, serious falling-object incidents;
  
• Regulators investigating electrocution, fake gas safety certification; and
  
• Fatigue reports dominate NHVR's safety hotline.

A PCBU faces a fatality-related fine of up to $1.5 million, after a High Court majority found that Federal civil aviation laws operate within the framework of WHS legislation and other state, territory and Commonwealth laws.

A union official recently accused of hindering a WHS inspector in Queensland has been charged with doing the same thing in another jurisdiction, while two of his colleagues have been charged with misleadingly telling workers they were entitled, by WHS laws, to leave an "unsafe" site on full pay.

In this article, OHS Alert reviews all the major WHS and workers' comp developments from the final quarter of 2018, including the release of ISO 45001 as an Australian Standard, record-breaking safety fines and enforceable undertakings, and legislative changes.

New WHS and workers' comp standards have commenced or been postponed in three jurisdictions, while two jurisdictions have issued confined space alerts after three deaths and an electric shock.

In a case prompting renewed calls for industrial manslaughter laws, a PCBU that failed to comply with its own safety management manual or apply available controls has been convicted over a death, while another employer has been fined over a painter's fatal fall.

• SWA releases chemicals guide, blitz shows pubs should read it;
  
• Employer charged with 11 acid breaches, man charged over death; and
  
• Conveyor, lightning and snake alerts issued after deaths, other incidents.

• Legislative change and GPS tracking likely under NSW asbestos plan;
  
• Alleged asbestos offender enters $213k WHS undertaking;
  
• SafeWork NSW award winners announced; and
  
• Lightning protection wins resources safety award.

• Australia's second highest WHS fine takes effect;
  
• RCD and meter warnings issued in two jurisdictions; and
  
• Are you walking to work tomorrow?