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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.
An employer has agreed to donate $50,000 to the Safety Institute of Australia (SIA), as well as provide the association with the outcomes of a major workplace review, after its failure to prevent hot work near combustible dust injured two workers.
An employer has committed $500,000 to enhancing its behavioural-based safety (BBS) process, conducting a hand safety campaign and other initiatives, after a worker was injured reaching into operating equipment.
A major employer has entered into a $677,000 WHS undertaking to cover a regulator's costs and educate the "next generation" of high-risk-industry workers, after a worker sustained serious injuries falling from a retractable ladder.
The Scouts have spent $100,000 on forklift-safety rectifications and committed to an annual WHS spend of $95,000, in lieu of prosecution, after allegedly failing to preserve an injury site.
A superior court has upheld the rejection of an employer's bid to enter a WHS undertaking in lieu of prosecution, after hearing that the relevant incident involved a fatality, and workers regularly accessed the hazardous area where the death occurred.
Lendlease has spent more than $1.3 million on safety rectifications and entered a $455,000 WHS undertaking in response to the construction site fire that shut down a Sydney precinct in 2014.
An employer has entered the most expensive WHS enforceable undertaking in NSW history, totalling more than $1.5 million and involving a State-wide machine safety audit.
An employer is implementing a comprehensive traffic management plan that involves monitoring and directing forklift and delivery drivers from a despatch office, as a part of a $452,000 WHS undertaking.
An employer has spent $75,000 updating its warehouse traffic management plans and introducing barricaded walkways and demarcations, and committed $300,000 to other safety undertakings, after a worker was hit by a reversing forklift.
