The Scouts have spent $100,000 on forklift-safety rectifications and committed to an annual WHS spend of $95,000, in lieu of prosecution, after allegedly failing to preserve an injury site.
The third quarter of 2017 was a busy period for work health and safety and workers' compensation professionals, with a raft of laws introduced or amended in all jurisdictions. In this report, OHS Alert outlines all the need-to-know changes, case law and controversies from the last three months.
WHS duty holders should expect increased scrutiny of incidents in South Australia, with SafeWork SA agreeing to all 18 recommendations of a review prompted by abandoned prosecutions.
A company director has been denied workers' compensation for paraplegia because he chose to be remunerated by directors' fees and dividends instead of wages a year before he was injured.
An employer whose only form of communicating a ban on using a hazardous machine door was an informal risk assessment, has been found guilty of safety offences after a worker was fatally crushed.
The adverse outcomes of surgery and medical treatments for a workplace injury must be considered when calculating an injured worker's whole person impairment (WPI), a tribunal full bench has confirmed on appeal.
South Australia will introduce its own legislation to eliminate "rogue" labour-hire companies, after an investigation into workers' comp premiums found hundreds of millions of dollars in remuneration discrepancies.
