A company director has been convicted and fined for a string of "disturbing" acts of bullying against two apprentices, including at a work Christmas party. A court found his company's safety failings were solely attributable to him.
Two PCBUs have been convicted and fined a total of more than $530,000 for multiple WHS contraventions, after a heavy object fell and smashed a glass atrium roof, seriously injuring a site worker and a passing courier.
A new worker sustained an amputation injury after receiving a five-minute training session on a hazardous machine with an out-of-reach emergency stop button, a court has found in fining her employer.
Employers need to educate remote employees on detaching from work after hours and making prudent decisions around working while ill, according to researchers examining the prevalence of presenteeism in working-from-home arrangements.
A commission has recommended a worker be provided with "self-awareness" and "conflict avoidance" training, finding a "shared language" between him and his supervisors could have prevented most of the 40 or so bullying allegations he raised in his stop-bullying bid.
A Victorian company that pleaded guilty to recklessly endangering an apprentice, while he was being supervised by the company director, has been fined $2.1 million - a penalty that is more than double the State's previous record safety fine for a single offence.
A leading legal expert on technology and the workplace has warned of the WHS risks and implications of using "bossware" to track workers' productivity, including that it can trigger cease-work orders under safety laws.
An employer has been reprimanded for failing to properly discipline a bully and allowing further "reprehensible" conduct to occur, but the victim has been refused stop-bullying orders, after the company made a number of changes to the workplace to make it safe for him to return to work.
A PCBU has failed to overturn its fatality-related WHS conviction in an appeals court, in a case demonstrating the key role that updating safety documents to reflect new practices plays in preventing incidents.
A PCBU has been fined $540,000 over a worker's death, after unsuccessfully seeking to reduce its penalty by arguing its electrical safety breaches did not cause the electrocution.
