A PCBU has been found guilty of WHS breaches, after one of its managers "capitulated" to the unsafe demands of a subcontractor and created a risk that resulted in serious injuries 12km away.
In an unusual move, two government ministers have secured an urgent meeting with a major road construction project's principal contractor following a string of plant rollovers and other safety incidents.
An employer should have developed a new safe work method statement and submitted it to a principal contractor for assessment after it abandoned its original high-risk work plan, a coronial inquest into a young worker's death has found.
A local council has agreed to spend more than $410,000 on safety rectifications to avoid prosecution for breaches of WHS regulations on safe work method statements, which carry maximum fines of just $30,000 each.
A major employer has been convicted of WHS offences and fined $240,000, plus $51,000 in costs, after a worker was killed when a rusty storage rack collapsed.
A worker who fell down a set of steps after completing her duties for a contractual period has been awarded workers' compensation, with a tribunal finding that preliminary employment negotiations can constitute a binding contract.
An employer failed to implement procedures that would have mitigated the injury risks created by another party's negligence, and is 35 per cent liable for an employee's $2 million damages award, a superior court has found.
A coronial inquest has found that WHS offences "may have been committed" in connection with the death of a worker in a 66-metre fall, after rejecting a regulator's finding that such workers weren't required to hold high-risk work licences.
