Browsing: Enforceable undertakings (NSW)


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
3:57PM

WHS undertakings don't go beyond expected standards

A regulator has rejected a PCBU's bid to enter a WHS undertaking in lieu of prosecution, after finding the business's alleged breaches could have caused a double fatality, and some of the proposed undertakings appeared to be projects it should implement anyway.


THU
2:25PM

Workers' coronavirus duties; and Big-spend asbestos EU

A regulator has alerted workers to their WHS duties pertaining to the coronavirus outbreak, while a local council has committed some $2 million to safety improvements and enforceable undertakings after being accused of failing to prepare asbestos registers and other WHS breaches.


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