The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) has decided to include the pay rates from a KPMG cost model in its new draft order, after employer groups that opposed the model failed to back up their claims of excessive costs with any data.
Both unions and a ministerial advisory panel have raised concerns over the sluggish development of Western Australia's mirror WHS laws, while a new report has identified the three greatest hazards faced by the State's mine workers.
An investigation into the death of a worker on a mobile elevated work platform has found his employer relied on lower-order risk controls, and stressed that special risk assessments are needed for platform tasks involving complex three-dimensional movements.
A worker who was injured while cleaning a work vehicle at home has been denied workers' compensation, after a judge found he wasn't induced or encouraged to clean the vehicle on his days off.
An employer has been handed the highest fine for a single safety offence in Australian history, in a case, according to the ACT Work Safety Commissioner, which shows judges will impose significant penalties, under the harmonised WHS Act, on those with poor safety records.
A passenger in a work vehicle has the same implied and statutory duty to observe safety signs and communication procedures as the driver, a commissioner has ruled in finding an employer was right to discipline a worker for using his mobile phone at the time of a crash.
A deceased worker's estate has been awarded $480,000 in death benefits, after a commission rejected his employer's claim that his use of illegal drugs contributed to the vehicle incident that killed him.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected a sacked worker's claim that his former employer's safety practice for reversing vehicles was no more than a "guide" that didn't apply to all areas of the worksite.
