A Western Australian employer that failed to ensure workers adhered to a modified elevated work platform's lifting capacity has been fined for OSH breaches, after the machine was overloaded and toppled over. Also in this article, two Queensland farm workers have been killed in vehicle incidents.
Electricity causing two serious work injuries every hour; "Certificates of capacity" for injured workers take effect in WA; Safety inspectors targeting vehicle repairers; ACT appoints new safety Minister as Gallagher takes on asbestos role; and ACT employers urged to apply for healthy-workplace grants.
OHS changes cut compliance costs in Victoria; WA handed power to contest unsafe industrial action; Stewart-Crompton reviewing SA's mirror WHS Act; Heavy vehicle operators face new penalty regime in NSW; and Long-load road rules amended in Tasmania.
Doctors will be required to specify what injured workers "can do", and common law claim access will be restricted, under two of 171 recommendations for Western Australia's new workers' comp statute.
Hundreds of truck drivers were caught drug-driving or illegally using their mobile phones, while thousands of diary breaches were detected, during the recent multi-agency blitz of the heavy vehicle industry. Meanwhile, a Western Australian transport company has been fined for dangerous goods offences.
Safety-undertaking pool tops $24m in Qld; Vic and Tas flag mandatory jail time for assaults on police; and WA considering exemptions to successful sentencing regime.
Employer fined for injury on poorly designed machine; Cootes faces further charges for unsafe heavy vehicles; Employers urged to secure outdoor worksites in adverse weather after death; Tradies ignoring aches and pains urged to improve health; and Mandatory asbestos training laws come into effect next week.
WorkCover NSW reveals 2014-15 premium rates; SA Independents to determine future of cancer compensation laws; and Maximum workers' comp payments increasing in WA.
An alleged victim of workplace bullying has failed to convince a Commissioner that the Fair Work Act's new anti-bullying provisions should be construed in favour of "all Australians".
