A coroner has expressed dismay at a major employer and a regulator concluding that a supervisor died because he failed to follow a safe working procedure, without considering the adequacy of the man's training and qualifications for the high-risk task that killed him.
An employer whose two-key machine system allowed workers to bypass guarding, has been fined after a worker's foot was severed. Meanwhile, a cargo handling facility has become the second of two entities to be fined over a potentially fatal forklift incident, and two companies have successfully pushed for reviews of their prohibition notices.
A PCBU that failed to engage a competent person to modify equipment has been fined $200,000, after a manager was killed in an explosion, while a company that failed to implement a safety policy for lone workers has been ordered to compensate a killed worker's family.
A labour-hire company and a host employer have been ordered to pay nearly $1 million in damages to a worker who was injured when he was forced to adopt an extreme posture to keep up with a fast-paced production line.
An employer has been ordered to pay nearly $800,000 in damages to a worker who was injured while riding a pallet jack like a scooter, after a superior court found it was vicariously liable for a colleague kicking the jack.
A manager who authorised machine operators to bypass a light curtain, and a worker who sprayed flames on a colleague for a joke, have been fined under section 28 ("Duties of workers") of the WHS Act.
A company that provided geotechnical advice to a major construction site, where two land collapses occurred, has become the first entity to be fined under section 46 ("Duty to consult with other duty holders") of Queensland's mirror WHS Act.
An employer was not vicariously liable for a manager's Facebook posts purportedly abusing a worker, a judge has ruled in rejecting a $570,000 psychiatric and physical injury claim.
