A NSW employer and its director have been ordered to pay more than $110,000 in fines and costs for illegally dumping asbestos and other waste, while another employer has been ordered to pay nearly $90,000 for exposing workers in a neighbouring industrial estate to harmful fumes. In Western Australia, an employer has been fined for allowing work to be performed with unsafe tools.
A worker has successfully sued his brother's company for nearly $650,000 in damages for a back injury he sustained after the company failed to provide him with adequate mechanical assistance for manual tasks.
A company has been acquitted of fatality-related WHS breaches, after a judge found it was "diligent" in its attempts to protect non-employees, and was entitled to rely on the expertise of a downstream duty holder.
A young worker who died after being left to operate a forklift alone in an industrial freezer hadn't received OHS or forklift training, the NSW Coroner has found.
A worker who was injured when she tripped over a box at work has been denied damages, after the NSW Court of Appeal found it wasn't reasonable for her to expect her workplace to be free from "obvious" hazards.
A regulator's power to obtain information under the model WHS Act isn't blocked by state borders or limited to documents that specifically refer to health and safety matters, the NSW Supreme Court has found in rejecting an employer's appeal against a $114,000 penalty.
A NSW delivery driver has been awarded nearly $1 million in damages for a serious ankle injury, which he sustained after a construction site supervisor directed him to unload heavy materials on an uneven surface instead of a nearby loading dock.
