With National Safe Work Month starting this week, employers are being urged to host SafeTea chats, focus on issues like mental health and workloads, and provide safer workplaces for women. Employers have also been warned to properly maintain their defibrillators.
An employer's commitment to spending nearly $1 million on safety undertakings, including piloting a drone program to eliminate fall-from-height risks, is the "preferred enforcement option" over a worker's four-metre fall, a regulator has revealed.
A tribunal has thrown out a joint bid by 145 workers to overturn their employer's vaccine mandate by claiming it involved WHS consultation flaws. The tribunal stressed that the feedback process in such circumstances enables "contribution", not "collaboration".
A commission has agreed with an employer that the seriousness of unsafe conduct isn't assessed by reference to injury or damage but the risk created, but overturned its dismissal of a worker for a driving incident it mischaracterised as highly serious.
A worker who was accused of breaching his employer's work health and safety requirements was unfairly dismissed, a court has ruled, finding the employer misinterpreted its own procedures.
All of Australia's eight harmonised WHS jurisdictions have now formally applied or committed to adopting provisions explicitly requiring PCBUs to manage psychosocial risks through a risk management process.
