In a long-running dispute involving a Victorian employer, which was fined $100,000 after an offsite subcontractor was killed by a falling crate, the High Court has heard it was widely known that such crates had been "jumping off trucks like lemmings over a cliff".
A health and safety fine imposed on a Tasmanian employer following an elevated-working-platform (EWP) fatality has been reduced, after the Supreme Court confirmed there was no evidence linking the company's deficiencies to the death.
Global hazardous chemicals system takes effect under model laws; Queensland employer fined for maintenance failure after death; Free Tasmanian service to boost worker health and productivity; and Western Australia's veteran Mines Minister announces retirement.
An unfair dismissal case, involving a worker sacked for theft, has uncovered deficiencies in a South Australian employer's forklift-licence regime that left it unable to prove an OHS breach was serious misconduct.
A NSW employer has been fined $225,000 after a worker was fatally crushed while working underneath a loader with no park brake. Also in this article, two Victorian employers have been fined for traffic-management breaches following a death.
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.
An employer probably would have prevented a workplace death if it complied with an operator's manual and enforced the use of a stop button on a crane, the Tasmanian Coroner has found. Also in this article, two NSW employers have been handed safety fines after a derailed train ended up in a driveway.
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.
