A company officer allegedly "caused the death" of a worker when he failed to respond to an internal HSE alert by revising a safety management plan, a court has heard in an ongoing case against the officer, an employee and their employer.
An employer has been convicted and fined after a worker fell three metres while performing a task that was previously outsourced to an expert company, while another employer has been fined after a worker's face was lacerated by an unguarded powered hand tool.
An employer whose only form of communicating a ban on using a hazardous machine door was an informal risk assessment, has been found guilty of safety offences after a worker was fatally crushed.
Work safety and workers' compensation amendments have passed Parliament in Queensland and Tasmania, while a NSW inquiry into the Dust Diseases scheme has made five recommendations amid growing concerns of a silicosis "epidemic".
A regulator has revealed that it pushed for an employer to be fined up to $900,000 from a maximum $1.5 million in the first sentencing judgment under New Zealand's new Australian-style workplace health and safety laws.
Coronial investigations into six chainsaw-related fatalities have found they all could have been prevented by complying with the applicable industry code and Australian Standard, or using PPE.
Two critical home office safety hazards are typically overlooked in take-home risk assessments, exposing workers who work from home to the risk of serious injury, the managing director of a WHS services provider says.
An employer could have prevented a worker's death by engaging a competent person to calculate the correct attachment points for gas struts on a prototype rack, a coroner has found.
A PCBU has been convicted and fined for WHS offences after an offsite worker used the wrong chemical to clean a machine, resulting in a man sustaining facial burns. Meanwhile, another employer has been fined after a worker fell off an unguarded platform.
