Browsing: Authority/inspectorate (TAS)


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Q2 2018: Everything you need to know from April to June

In this major report, OHS Alert examines all the important work safety and workers' comp developments from the second quarter of 2018, including unprecedented regulatory action against a safety officer and eight other parties after a fatality, the High Court agreeing to determine the reach of the WHS Act, and numerous legislative changes.


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Don't forget hypothermia and slip risks this winter

Workers can suffer from hypothermia affecting their physical and mental coordination in temperatures as high as 15 degrees, and are particularly susceptible to work-ending slips, trips and falls in winter, regulators have warned.


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Expert evidence blocked in triple fatality probe

A company that controlled a work site where three fatalities occurred within six weeks has successfully challenged the admissibility of components of an "expert's" report in a coronial inquest into the deaths.


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Category 3 charges amendable, legal privilege denied

In an ongoing fatality-related WHS prosecution, a superior court has found that the prosecutor's defective charges aren't invalid because other documents reveal the true nature of the alleged offence. It has also ordered the prosecutor to provide a "confidential" report to the defendant, in a ruling on legal privilege.


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