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Qld employers urged to check validity of safety summonses; Cancer compensation laws pass in Tas, trudge forward in SA; and Caution urged after concrete panel incidents and welding explosion.
A worker who fails to wear PPE or properly isolate plant should face disciplinary action, but shouldn't be dismissed if the failures don't create an imminent safety risk, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A Western Australian worker, who claimed he was assaulted by his boss and fled the workplace because he feared for his safety, has had his unfair dismissal claim rejected.
BHP Billiton claims in its 2013 sustainability report, released today, that it can partly attribute a reduction in workers' exposure to carcinogens and airborne contaminants to establishing its own occupational exposure limits when regulatory limits are inadequate.
Bis Industries has proven to be a leader in creating healthy and safe workplaces for the second consecutive year, after receiving a national award for tackling worker fatigue and keeping communities onside.
A South Australian employer that allowed workers to use a forklift to open and close a faulty roller door has been fined $66,000 for safety breaches. Also in this article, an employer has been fined after a safety consultant it engaged failed to identify a pinch point on a press.
An employer unfairly sacked a train driver for allegedly breaching the new national rail safety laws, after he failed a drug and alcohol test when he attended work for a meeting, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A Western Australian employer and its director - who was aware of a fall risk, but didn't take steps to control it - have become the latest entities to be fined after a teenage worker sustained serious head and neck injuries in a fall.
Many employers will never have to deal with one of their workers committing suicide, but they should be prepared to take immediate action just in case, the Comcare National Conference has heard.
