A superior court has upheld the rejection of an employer's bid to enter a WHS undertaking in lieu of prosecution, after hearing that the relevant incident involved a fatality, and workers regularly accessed the hazardous area where the death occurred.
A company officer allegedly "caused the death" of a worker when he failed to respond to an internal HSE alert by revising a safety management plan, a court has heard in an ongoing case against the officer, an employee and their employer.
A worker has been refused stop-bullying orders against her supervisor, whose alleged unreasonable actions included criticising her written reports and "ambushing" her in the work car park to lecture her.
An employer has been ordered to pay more than $1.7 million in damages to a manager who was forced into medical retirement after a new CEO repeatedly "harassed, mistreated, devalued and undermined" her for 11 months.
Woolworths has been ordered to pay more than $231,000 in damages to a worker who injured his shoulder under a system where he was pressured to perform repetitive lifting at high speed to meet performance targets.
An employer could have prevented a worker's death by engaging a competent person to calculate the correct attachment points for gas struts on a prototype rack, a coroner has found.
The Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads has been fined $175,000 for a category 2 WHS breach, after at least six workers were exposed to respirable asbestos fibres, and now face the threat of diseases like mesothelioma for the rest of their lives.
A PCBU has been fined $200,000 over a fatality, in the latest of a series of prosecutions involving objects entering mobile plant cabins. Meanwhile, an employer has been fined $100,000 for exposing patrons to the risk of injury or death, after a girl sustained serious cuts in a go-kart crash.
A site supervisor and an operations manager have been fined for ignoring workers' safety concerns and directing concrete panels to be placed next to powerlines. Meanwhile, a regulator has issued a height warning, following a series of falls, prosecutions and category 1 WHS charges.
