The three adult children of a NSW worker who died of a heart attack have been awarded $145,000 each in workers' compensation, after the WCC found the woman was overworked and received little support from her employer.
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Employers are being urged to reconsider the length of night shifts for contractors, after a study found the odds of an "event" resulting in a mining contractor's death - instead of an injury or near miss - increased after eight hours into shifts beginning at 11pm.
Queensland's OHS regulator has been advised by the Coroner to introduce safety regulations for the hazardous house-removal industry within a year, after a young worker was fatally crushed beneath a house on his second day on the job.
A NSW company director who knew his workers deliberately exposed themselves to chemical fumes to "get high", but failed to stop them and enforce PPE requirements, has been fined for OHS breaches, after a worker died from exposure to solvents.
A major Safe Work Australia report has found that 63 per cent of the work-related deaths that occurred in 2012 involved vehicles, while falling objects also caused a high-proportion of deaths. SWA has also released a special report on deaths and injuries arising from falls from height.
Employers will only incur significant costs from complying with new Codes of Practice if they aren't complying with existing safety laws, Safe Work Australia says in a consultation regulation impact statement for the draft model stevedoring Code.
