Browsing: Authority/inspectorate (VIC)

An employer has been convicted and fined $360,000, after its failure to address a safety risk forced a worker to improvise and lean over a six-metre-deep trench, resulting in his fatal fall.

• WHS regulator shuts sites for COVID breaches, calls in police; and
  
• Passed OHS laws increase deterrent effect of tough penalties.

• "Zero tolerance" workplace COVID blitz announced; and
  
• Employer fails to comply with Standard for automatic doors.

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

• WHS incidents behind manslaughter prosecutions revealed;
  
• Recently prosecuted employer charged after falling-object death; and
  
• Another state mandates COVID vaccines for health workers.

Boral subsidiaries in two states have been charged with breaching workplace health and safety laws in failing to adequately protect workers from airborne silica dust, while a small business has been charged with similar contraventions. The developments coincide with Safe Work Australia's call for employers to prevent lung diseases through the hierarchy of controls.

An employer has agreed to implement a new permit system and other enforceable undertakings after a safety inspector witnessed its excavator enter the "no go zone" of powerlines. Meanwhile, a drug trafficker has been denied a labour-hire licence in one of a recent spate of refusals.

• Big bank trials rapid COVID tests, reveals wellbeing strategies; and
  
• "Injured" fraudsters ordered to pay more than $80k.

• Workplace controller convicted of 16 safety breaches;
  
• Chemical reaction leads to string of safety charges; and
  
• Regulator issues height advice after fine imposed.

A company and its clinical director have been fined a total of nearly $730,000 for failing to develop comprehensive safety plans for clients, and other breaches, after a client with multiple sclerosis lost consciousness and later died.