A safety regulator has successfully prosecuted a government-owned corporation for supplying a worker with a metal (instead of nonconductive) rod to clean powerlines, and is investigating a separate fatal electrical incident. Another regulator has issued a workplace powerlines warning after multiple shocks and near misses.
High-risk work licence holders and the entities that engage them have been warned to operate plant within the rated capacities and capabilities, while a regulator has outlined seven steps employers can take to manage wet weather hazards, with torrential rain forecast.
The injuries sustained by a worker at an alcohol-fuelled work Christmas party occurred in the course of her employment and not during a "social" activity, an appeals bench has ruled in rejecting a regulator's bid to block her claim.
The independent reviewer of South Australia's WHS regulator must "ensure that the management of psychological injury is central to any recommendations", given provisions explicitly obligating PCBUs to control psychosocial risks were recently added to the national model WHS Regulations, a peak union body says.
A PCBU and its director were on notice from a 2014 regulatory visit and prohibition notice of their WHS duty to properly guard machinery, a tribunal has ruled in convicting and fining them over a worker's 2020 degloving injury.
A WHS prohibition notice issued to a ride operator, identifying similar safety concerns to those examined in an inquest into a child's death, has been stayed with conditions, with a tribunal noting efforts to completely eliminate risk would "shut down a large number of rides and experiences".
