Browsing: Authority/inspectorate (SA)

• Worker handed WHS fine for category-2 caring breaches;
  
• WA pumps funds into WHS transition; and
  
• Silica compliance improving, but air monitoring a concern.

Administrative safety controls over-rely on workers' judgement, leave no room for inadvertence or inattention, and are "never enough" on their own, a court has found in convicting an employer over crush injuries.

• Major safety Bill passes without photograph amendments; and
  
• SWA and regulator tackle deadly risk with WHS guide and alert.

A 20 to 30 per cent chance of an injured worker requiring surgery for work injuries in the future meets the definition of "likely", a tribunal full bench has found in rejecting a regulator's fight against liability for two future surgeries.

A famous Australian bootmaker has designed new tools and committed to adopting AS/NZS 45001:2018, with regular compliance audits, under an enforceable undertaking, after a worker with no experience with a new material had a finger amputated.

Many workers who perform ground support tasks for mobile elevating work platforms have not been trained in emergency descent procedures, a WHS regulator has found in a campaign triggered by a fatality inquest. The regulator has also revealed its expectations around ladder use.

Assessing the "likelihood" of an injured worker requiring a procedure is not a "more likely than not" determination, a tribunal has found in upholding a worker's bid for future surgery costs.

• Inexpensive part could have prevented injuries and prosecution; and
  
• Dozens of high-risk work licensees require re-assessment.

A PCBU and its director could have prevented an inexperienced worker's serious spinal injuries, and avoided their WHS convictions, through simple pre-start checks, a regulator has revealed.

• Employer fined $102k over work basket detachment;
  
• "Top 10 hazardous chemicals" targeted by NSW guidance; and
  
• Regulators issue asbestos warnings, target illegal imports.