Unions are again demanding an increase in penalty levels for negligent employers in Western Australia, after the Supreme Court halved a $180,000 fine imposed on a company and two directors over a workplace fatality.
"Discontinuity" between training and work site caused wharf death; Victorians fined over chemical spill, house collapse and neglected notice; Second safety trainer convicted over Northern Territory explosion; and Western Australian employer fined for unsafe maintenance work.
There is a shortage of safety inspectors in Western Australia and work-related injury and fatality rates could "continue to rise", a union has claimed following the recent spate of work deaths in the State, including one yesterday.
SWA releases harmonisation Q&A on volunteers; NT employers fined over Canadian worker's death; Queensland Govt warns against mine-safety-levy cut, is accused of rushing harmonised WHS laws; Western Australia's new workers' comp dispute system gets underway; and WorkSafe WA releases FIFO fatigue alert.
Risk assessments must address the "imperfect" procedures of other organisations in the supply chain, and must not be viewed as an administrative burden, the Victorian Coroner has stressed in a report on a stevedore's death.
A "foolhardy and reckless" South Australian employer has been convicted and fined for safety breaches, after two men who were offered a "feed of fish" in return for their work as deckhands died at sea.
A special report prompted by a Queensland gymnast's death, and coronial inquests into two white-water rafting fatalities, have highlighted just how critical it is for employers in all industries to undertake comprehensive risk assessments.
