An employer that was found to have negligently caused a worker to crash his car while driving home from a 12-hour shift has overturned the ruling, with an appeals court finding: there was insufficient evidence to suggest fatigue caused the crash; and the employer had fulfilled its common law duty of care.
A PCBU that failed to properly assess the risks posed by its new work system and equipment has been handed a pre-discount fine of $240,000, after a worker fell and was impaled by a steel bar.
A company that was fined heavily over the death of a teenager, in the notorious Macquarie Park, NSW scaffolding collapse, has been permanently banned from performing contract work, while its director has been disqualified for a decade.
In a long-running case, an engineering company has been convicted and fined $250,000 for failing to ensure two workers were actively supervised while they helped a crane perform decommissioning work at another company's site.
A PCBU has been handed a pre-discount fine of $540,000, following the death of a subcontracted site manager in a 19-metre fall, with a court finding it failed to enforce both its, and the subcontractor's, safe work method statements.
A company accused of breaching Fair Work laws by blocking a union official from testing respirable dust levels, on a major project, has claimed it complies with all air-monitoring-related WHS rules, and the suitability of the union's testing device is questionable.
An employer that was effectively forced, by a judge's erroneous ruling on a fatality, to plead guilty to breaching regulations for high-risk work, has been fined $420,000 after a retrial, saving it $430,000 in penalties.
An employer has been fined $360,000 after a worker fell nine metres from a roof and sustained severe injuries, in a case that compelled the sentencing judge to repeat his warning about an industry's workplace health and safety "carnage".
One of three PCBUs charged over a double fall - an incident that has already attracted $800,000 in fines - has escaped a reckless conduct conviction, in a ruling on its duty to labourers it referred to another company.
