A PCBU has been fined $134,000, and it two directors $33,000 each, for failing to "comply with their basic obligations", after a young worker was pinned under 1.2 tonnes of steel sheets when parts of a structure collapsed.
A PCBU failed to take straightforward measures that would have protected a worker from being attacked by a client known to be violent, a tribunal has found in convicting the duty holder.
A PCBU's failure to implement a system for recording machinery faults resulted in unsupervised personnel developing unsafe ways to use inappropriately modified plant, leading to a worker sustaining serious burns, a court has found in convicting the PCBU.
A supervisor's conduct in allowing a crew to drink alcohol at a lunch was "much worse" than that of the team members who drank, a commission has found in upholding his summary dismissal.
A PCBU has been fined $400,000 after a worker sustained fatal injuries falling from an unsuitable ladder, with a court slamming its site induction for being "so inadequate" that it failed to detect that the worker did not have a "white card".
A supervisor with key safety responsibilities has unsuccessfully relied on his extensive experience, in issuing and removing hundreds of safety documents, to overturn his sacking for lifting a job safety analysis and directing a worker to enter a hazardous area.
Being supported by supervisors is the "catalyst" activating workers' motivation to behave safely and prioritise reducing the risk of incidents, a study of more than 300 workers in a high-hazard sector has found.
Just two weeks after expressing her concern and dismay at the number of fall-from-height cases coming before her court, a judge has handed down another $800,000 pre-discount fine in a case where "glaringly" obvious risks were ignored.
An employer has been deemed liable for the psychological injury sustained by a worker who was attacked, most likely by the partner of a "high risk" client, on her way to work. A judge found the employer failed to act on its knowledge of the immediate risk the partner posed to the worker.
A PCBU that failed to properly supervise its workers has been fined $300,000, after an unqualified labourer, who had been allocated groundwork, fell to his death from a height of nearly three metres.
