Browsing: WHS decisions (QLD)


MON
3:36PM

Director failed to ensure company utilised WHS resources

A company director who failed to ensure his organisation provided fall prevention measures to height workers has become the third entity to be fined over a five-metre fall, while a regulator has expressed frustration after yet another employer was fined for forklift-related breaches.





MON
1:50PM

Fine increased by 25% for PCBU that claimed it was a "consumer" without duties

A court has rejected a PCBU's renewed claim that as it was merely a "consumer" of electricity, and used the services of qualified persons for electrical works, it did not have an electrical safety duty and was not responsible for a shock incident.



WED
11:06AM

Owner gets record jail time for industrial manslaughter

A business owner will spend at least 18 months in jail - a record under Australian workplace health and safety laws - after being found guilty of the industrial manslaughter of his friend, in a case highlighting the broad meaning of "worker".


MON
3:41PM

Electrical safety breaches attract multiple penalties and nearly kill apprentice

A company and its director have been fined a total of $126,000, after their electrical safety contraventions were referred to a WHS prosecutor. Another company was recently fined for similar breaches, after an apprentice was nearly killed.


FRI
2:05PM

THU
2:04PM

New WHS duties for EWPs flagged by fatality inquest

A WHS Code of Practice and regulations for elevated work platforms could be amended in Queensland, and the changes applied nationally, under recommendations from a coronial inquest into a renowned photographer's death.


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