Browsing: Duty holders | Page 90

A company and its director have been fined a total of $270,000, after the company modified its work procedures to require staff to be in a position where they were at the greatest risk of being struck by falling forklift loads.

• Four WHS infographics complement anti-harassment guidance;
  
• Dark milestone reached after abolition of "safe rates" tribunal; and
  
• "Remapping" increases workplace diesel risks.

A PCBU has been to ordered to pay nearly $550,000 in penalties and costs, after two of its clients died in similar circumstances in less than three years. Meanwhile, a WHS regulator has revealed the two main electrical hazards recently identified in workplaces.

An employer that failed to ensure certain "particulars" of its "comprehensive" safety management system were followed has been fined $150,000, after a worker came into contact with powerlines.

A major Deloitte review has highlighted the role that prescribed officer duties play in "lifting the corporate veil" and increasing compliance with work health and safety laws, in recommending adding these duties to provisions for offshore facilities.

• Employer fined $102k over work basket detachment;
  
• "Top 10 hazardous chemicals" targeted by NSW guidance; and
  
• Regulators issue asbestos warnings, target illegal imports.

Employers should consider and incorporate, where reasonably practicable, technologies like proximity detection systems to control mobile plant interactions, according to one of 11 recommendations in a report on a fatality.

Three employers have been ordered to pay a total of more than $1 million in safety fines and reparations, after their exclusion-zone failings resulted in the deaths of two workers in separate incidents.

• Two states step up workplace COVID compliance activities;
  
• Unionists accused of breaching site's COVID and WHS rules; and
  
• Did you miss our latest major WHS and COVID review?

A PCBU will translate a range of WHS materials to prevent communication breakdowns and risks among non-English-speaking workers, and contribute $50,000 to a regulatory campaign, after it was accused of WHS breaches resulting in glass falling on a public street.