WorkCover NSW funds harmonisation awareness; WorkSafe Victoria announces fatality probe and new campaigns; WorkSafe ACT announces falling premiums, releases harmonisation guides; and Essential OHS news from around Australia.
Two NSW employers that allowed standing on a moving conveyor to become a "routine process" have been fined a total of $200,000, after a worker suffered shocking leg injuries.
Warnings issued after workplace deaths and near-fatality; OHS rep faces fine after threatening subcontractors; and New ACT Chief Minister retains IR portfolio.
The Bill that will see the NSW Industrial Relations Commission lose jurisdiction over OHS prosecutions was influenced, in part, by a push to weaken workplace health and safety laws, Commission President Justice Roger Boland claims.
NSW employers will have an absolute obligation to consult with all duty holders on OHS issues months ahead of schedule, if the State Government's "fast track" harmonisation Bill passes through Parliament, lawyers say.
Union-led prosecutions and reverse-onus OHS laws in NSW could be jettisoned within weeks, with the State Government introducing a "fast track" harmonisation Bill to Parliament today.
A NSW employer that failed to complete an OHS management plan - because its OHS and production managers were too busy - has been fined $160,000, after the OHS manager was killed in an incident involving an unsafe forklift.
In a horrific case that illustrates the "grave risk" of conducting hot work near a fuel source, a NSW employer has been fined $200,000 after a worker surrounded by flames jumped nine metres to his death.
In this update, OHS Alert outlines all the important OHS and workers' compensation legislative changes made in the first quarter of 2011. We also recap the most significant court and tribunal rulings and other developments in each jurisdiction.
NSW employer Dairy Farmers did everything in its power to ensure staff understood its code of conduct and email policy, Fair Work Australia has ruled, in finding seven employees were rightly sacked for distributing inappropriate emails.
