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MON
2:29PM

Coffee burns followed by serious OHS charge and EU

In a case reminding employers of the reach of their workplace health and safety duties, a business has entered a $281,000 undertaking to escape prosecution over an incident where an elderly person was burned by black coffee.


FRI
3:58PM

WHS-specific English classes locked in after incident

A PCBU has committed nearly $600,000 to putting hundreds of its workers from linguistically diverse backgrounds through English classes covering safety and site-specific issues, under a $1.5 million WHS undertaking.


THU
12:48PM

Anti-collision commitment follows rollaway work fatality

An employer has committed to trialling vehicle safety sensor systems and rolling out the collision avoidance technology across its entire fleet, after being accused of WHS breaches relating to the death of a worker in a runaway vehicle incident.


TUE
1:23PM

WHS appointments form part of record $1.8m EU

A city-based PCBU will employ a WHS coordinator to service regions lacking safety expertise, and develop an app that ensures hired equipment matches proposed jobs, in a record $1.8 million-plus undertaking prompted by a crane fall.


THU
3:56PM

FRI
1:15PM

WHS regulator sets the standard for avoiding prosecution

A regulator has rejected a second WHS undertaking application in a matter of months, this time from a PCBU that has received 44 prohibition and improvement notices since late 2015, and whose proposed undertaking focuses on implementing administrative over higher order control measures.


WED
11:56AM

Flawed emergency plan for robots ends in WHS EU

A PCBU accused of breaching WHS laws, in failing to prepare a proper emergency plan for "worker entrapment by... robotic arms", has avoided prosecution through a $500,000 commitment to digitalise its safety management system and other initiatives.


THU
2:38PM

WED
1:56PM

"Positive" WHS probes aimed at incident prevention

A PCBU's new "positive investigation methodology", being rolled out under a $1.5 million rectification and undertaking package, will better engage workers in safety probes and strengthen incident prevention, the company claims.


FRI
3:59PM

Employer failed to respond to EWP advice with SWMS

An employer that allegedly failed to prepare a safe work method statement for an elevating work platform, after it was advised of a subcontractor's plan to use one, will provide mental health first-aid training to employees and subcontractors under a bid to avoid prosecution.


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