Victorian employer Baiada takes OHS "control" dispute to High Court; Worker exposed to asbestos three times awarded $1.15 million; Qld employer fined for insulation death as WA commences switchroom campaign; and ACT regulator publishes guide to Workplace Privacy Act.
A machine operator was crushed to death while cleaning an industrial blender more than 12 months after an audit identified a lack of guarding on the plant as a "high priority" issue, the NSW Industrial Court has heard.
Discriminatory workers' comp legislation abolished in Western Australia; and Employers urged to review systems after second tree-related death in two days.
A Western Australian contractor has been handed a record-equalling workplace health and safety fine over the January 2008 prison-van death of the Aboriginal elder, Mr Ward.
SafeWork SA is likely to prosecute more employers more swiftly for OHS breaches, after the South Australian Government promised to implement every recommendation contained in a Robin Stewart-Crompton report.
Near-maximum safety fines handed to a South Australian employer and a director following the 2006 Gladstone factory explosion - which killed three workers - are likely to be reduced, after the Industrial Relations Court found the cause of the explosion was not as clear cut as a magistrate found it to be.
The Federal Court has imposed the maximum fine of $242,000 on the manufacturer of the Malu Sara, describing the Commonwealth-commissioned vessel, which took five lives when it sank in the Torres Strait, as "dangerously unseaworthy".
A supervisor who was instructed to boost worker morale during construction of the Christmas Island Detention Centre was "in the course of employment" when he suffered a fatal heart attack while snorkelling, according to the South Australian WCT.
