Safety training not necessary for stepladder
An employer didn't breach its duty of care to a worker, in failing to instruct her on how to safely use a stepladder, because using the ladder was a "relatively straightforward" task, a court has found.
An employer didn't breach its duty of care to a worker, in failing to instruct her on how to safely use a stepladder, because using the ladder was a "relatively straightforward" task, a court has found.
A superior court has rejected a worker's dust-related damages claim, but found that employers that don't have a safety management system for allergenic dust can be sued under dangerous substances laws.
In a case "about making coffee", an employer has been ordered to pay more than half a million dollars in damages to a worker whose arm turned blue after constantly holding a two-kilogram jug.
An employer was negligent in requiring a new employee to reach over a balustrade to operate a power tool, which caused him to fall, a judge has found.
A young worker who injured her back when she fell off a ladder has been awarded $250,000 in damages, after a court found her employer breached scaffolding regulations in failing to require someone to hold the ladder.
An employer had been entitled to rely on an experienced subcontractor to perform a lifting task safely, a court of appeal has found in stripping the injured subcontractor of more than $820,000 in damages.
An employer has been handed the highest fine for a single safety offence in Australian history, in a case, according to the ACT Work Safety Commissioner, which shows judges will impose significant penalties, under the harmonised WHS Act, on those with poor safety records.
An Industrial Magistrate's June decision to acquit the first person charged as an "officer" under the harmonised WHS laws has been published, and is, according to a leading safety lawyer, the first judgment to examine the meaning of due diligence under the new laws.
A recent safety prosecution involving a liquidated company, and the first person charged as an "officer" under the harmonised WHS laws, has highlighted one of the main reasons the officer provisions were included in the new legislation, according to a regulator.
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