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An employer has defeated two OHS charges, after a commission found a worker was injured while "acting contrary to clear, repeated and well-known directives".

A worker died from carbon monoxide poisoning while using PPE attached to a diesel air compressor that his employer hadn't maintained, a coronial inquest has found.

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An employer has been fined over an illegible safety sign and inadequate guarding, which was ultimately fixed for $400, after a worker's arm was entangled in a machine's rotating parts.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has renewed its warning on Infinity-branded electrical cables, which were installed in thousands of commercial buildings and are expected to start becoming brittle and create safety risks within a matter of months.

PCBUs are required by WHS laws to manage the risks associated with vibrating machinery and tools through the hierarchy of controls, according to new guidance material from Safe Work Australia.

An employer has been ordered to pay nearly $12,000 to a worker it sacked for breaching its drug and alcohol policy, after the Fair Work Commission found it unfairly gave him a first and final warning for failing to tag-out a machine eight months earlier.

A superior court has slammed an employer for its "cavalier disregard" for workers' safety and its "disdainful" response to a WorkSafe improvement notice, in rejecting its appeal against a $375,000 OHS fine.

The Fair Work Commission has upheld an employer's decision to sack two workers for using a "non-designated" tool for a high-risk task.

The Fair Work Commission has rejected a sacked worker's claim that he didn't deliberately place his hand in a hazardous machine, as contended by two witnesses, despite finding there was "no obvious reason" why he would do such a thing.