Browsing: Consultation


THU
1:30PM

Comcare identifies top psychosocial hazard, warns that inspectors will scrutinise consultation processes

Unsafe job demands are the most common psychosocial hazards in Australian workplaces, and employers must explore multiple measures to safeguard against the risk to a reasonably practicable extent, a Comcare director says.


FRI
12:52PM

Major employer's WHS consultation process upheld in 145-worker challenge to vaccine mandate

A tribunal has thrown out a joint bid by 145 workers to overturn their employer's vaccine mandate by claiming it involved WHS consultation flaws. The tribunal stressed that the feedback process in such circumstances enables "contribution", not "collaboration".





MON
12:38PM

Two PCBUs sentenced over death, consultation could have been achieved through emailing

Two PCBUs have been handed pre-discount fines totalling $460,000 for their involvement in the death of a delivery driver. One of the PCBUs failed to comply with its consultation duties, which could have been satisfied through a simple email enquiry, a judge ruled.


TUE
12:57PM



THU
1:09PM

WHS consultation flaws can attract primary-duty charges

Harmonised WHS laws and their prescriptive consultation requirements have been in place in most jurisdictions for more than a decade, but there have been few duty-to-consult prosecutions. According to a WHS lawyer, this could be because regulators prefer to conflate consultation failings with more serious breaches to pursue higher penalties.


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