A judge has reiterated the vulnerability of work experience students and fined a company $250,000, after a 17-year-old student's hand was crushed in a machine.
An employer has been found 40 per cent liable for a serious workplace injury, which was caused by a subcontracted excavator operator negligently using his mobile phone while operating the vehicle.
An employer has been convicted and fined for WHS breaches, after its director identified a serious safety risk at a worksite, but then left without ensuring the necessary controls were implemented before work commenced.
An employer has satisfied its reverse onus of proof in an adverse action case, with a court agreeing that it dismissed a worker for being unable to fulfil the inherent requirements of her role, and not because she planned to seek stop-bullying orders in the Fair Work Commission.
Supervisors are in the best position to minimise the negative impact that heavy workloads and client aggression have on workers' private lives, according to European researchers.
Two employers have been fined, while another company and a manager have been charged, after a worker was scalped and another sustained serious burns in an explosion. Meanwhile, a regulator has called for employers to prioritise safety, after Victoria experienced its worst year for fatalities in nearly a decade.
Toll Transport Pty Ltd has been handed one of the highest safety fines in Australian history, and the highest for a single OHS offence in Victoria, after a stevedore was run over and killed in the absence of a spotter.
