Browsing: Authority/inspectorate (SA)

• Premiums increased for high "serious" workplace injury rate; and
  
• New COVID check-in rule for businesses introduced.

• WHS manslaughter Bill introduced ahead of national vote; and
  
• Missing asbestos register and burns prompt fine and warnings.

Employers will have an explicit positive duty to eliminate workplace s-xual harassment and discrimination, under laws flagged in response to the latest major review of the issue. The review identified barriers to tackling harassment "through a WHS lens".

• Employer fined $100k after non-working riders injured;
  
• Regulators issue 84 notices under ongoing blitzes; and
  
• Employers must check surfaces for fragile spots.

A tribunal full bench majority has upheld an "intuitive reasoning" finding that a worker's fatal stroke was caused by him turning his head at work, and connected to his employment.

• Workplace masks mandatory for "circuit breaker" lockdown;
  
• Cash to oversee WHS again; and
  
• Guide to electing HSRs for "multi-PCBU" groups released.

A supermarket giant has been convicted of WHS offences after a "blind spot" in its inspection and maintenance regime allowed degraded equipment to fall on a worker, inflicting multiple fractures.

• Amendments fill workplace harassment and safety "gaps"; and
  
• WHS regulator targets psychological risks.

A worker and his employer have been convicted of breaching WHS laws through "inadequate job planning" and by overriding a crane's safety features.

Preventing workplace s-xual harassment hinges on WHS frameworks that shift "the obligation from victims reporting harassment to employers managing risk" - a PCBU duty receiving increasing attention from safety regulators, the review of harassment in the South Australian Parliament has shown.