A NSW employer and its director have been fined for failing to comply with a WHS Code of Practice and using an unsuitable ladder, after a worker suffered fatal injuries in a fall.
A number of NSW employers have been fined for dangerously modifying plant, failing to instruct employees to read operating manuals and other safety breaches, following a series of severe injuries, including two amputations.
A coronial inquest into a string of quad bike deaths has found that many quad fatalities involve "user error", but these errors are often only apparent with the benefit of hindsight, and don't excuse manufacturers from applying the hierarchy of controls to reduce operator risks.
Two employers that failed to amend a safe work procedure after updating instructions about isolating plant have been fined nearly $400,000 after a worker died.
A union's opposition to a tobacco smoking ban at a large workplace was "ameliorated" by the measures the employer put in place to help workers quit or reduce the habit, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A worker with "creeping trauma" has been awarded nearly $1 million in damages, after a court found his employer repeatedly failed to counsel him after he witnessed "gruesome" events and admitted he was struggling with work.
An employer's fatality-related OHS fine should include a component for general deterrence to alert the mining industry to the need to adopt adequate systems for inherently dangerous tasks "at all stages of the operation", the NSW Industrial Court has found.
A NSW employer has been fined $67,000 after two employees, whose supervisors were in a management meeting, mixed incompatible dangerous goods and created a toxic gas that led to seven workers, including themselves, being hospitalised.
