Browsing: WHS decisions (VIC)


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Heavy fine and OHS charges for fatalities and mine fire

A second employer has been fined $250,000 over the Melbourne wall collapse that killed three pedestrians in 2013, while WorkSafe Victoria has charged an employer with 10 breaches of the OHS Act relating to the 2014 Hazelwood coal mine fire.


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Focus on pre-injury role too narrow, discriminatory

An employer breached equal opportunity laws in focusing solely on a worker's pre-injury duties when it decided to dismiss her for safety reasons, a tribunal has found.


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OHS charge upheld in Kirk ruling

A Court of Appeal majority has upheld a fatality-related OHS charge against Baiada Poultry Pty Ltd, after finding the High Court's Kirk decision doesn't require charge-sheets to specify "detailed" preventative actions.


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Worker fined over horseplay injury; and more

A worker has been fined for cutting a colleague's buttocks with a saw while engaging in horseplay, while a manager and his employer have both been fined after a worker was seriously injured while riding in a non-compliant forklift cage.


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