Browsing: WHS decisions (ACT)


THU
12:53PM

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.


WED
2:33PM

FRI
2:50PM

Extra staff didn't relieve injured worker

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.


TUE
2:20PM

FRI
1:34PM

MON
12:14PM

Worker wins $250k after ladder fall

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.


FRI
10:00AM

THU
12:13PM

FRI
2:14PM

Court sheds light on WHS officer definition

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.


WED
3:39PM

WHS case highlights importance of officer provisions

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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