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In only the third case of its type, a Queensland employer has entered a $200,000 enforceable undertaking under the mirror WHS laws, after two workers were injured when a tyre exploded.
A Queensland employer has entered into its second enforceable undertaking, in lieu of prosecution, in just over a year - this time after its workers were potentially exposed to asbestos fibres.
Safety-undertaking pool tops $24m in Qld; Vic and Tas flag mandatory jail time for assaults on police; and WA considering exemptions to successful sentencing regime.
A Queensland distributor has become one of the first employers to enter into an enforceable undertaking under the State's mirror WHS laws, after a forklift entered a pedestrian zone and injured a worker.
An employer has committed $100,000 to a manual handling study, while a second employer has promised to provide extensive safety training to its workers and supervisors, after they were both accused of OHS breaches.
A Victorian employer has committed to spending $667,000 on OHS initiatives - in addition to the $117,000 it has already spent on developing a crane interlock system - as part of an enforceable undertaking, after five safety incidents occurred at three of its sites in less than a year.
Mock court proceedings will be held as part of a Victorian employer's $150,000 enforceable undertaking - entered into after a non-employee was injured - to ensure managers know their safety obligations and the consequences of not following safety rules.
A Queensland employer that spent nearly $450,000 on improving its health and safety following an incident has committed a further $230,000 to "safety and resilience" training and other initiatives, as part of an enforceable undertaking.
Two employers fined $100k over missing guard after amputation; MaxiTRANS enters $200k safety undertaking; WorkSafe releases new safety standard for high-risk industry; Alerts issued after 30 mobile-plant rollovers and other incidents; and Public defibrillators linked to high heart attack survival rate.
The safety standards during the construction of Brisbane's Airport Link tunnel have been declared "deplorable", with one worker being killed, the joint-venture partners facing OHS prosecutions, one partner and another employer entering enforceable undertakings after other workers were injured, and 70 notices being issued by a regulator.
