Browsing: WHS decisions (VIC) | Page 42

Two major employers have failed to convince a court of appeal that their fatality-related OHS charges should be quashed because the relevant conduct was covered by road safety laws, with maximum fines of just $7300.

An employer has been fined over an illegible safety sign and inadequate guarding, which was ultimately fixed for $400, after a worker's arm was entangled in a machine's rotating parts.

A Court of Appeal has found an employer could have been, and probably should have been, fined much more than $250,000 over a fatality, but declined to intervene and increase the penalty.

• Employer and dentist fined after WorkSafe investigations; and
  
• WA introduces world's first safety Code for autonomous mining.

• Stena Drilling Australia fined $330k; and
  
• National safety Bill gets green light in host jurisdiction.

A worker whose unwanted pregnancy went undiagnosed after six employment-related medical examinations has been denied damages for injuries resulting from giving birth and raising the child.

• Stena Clyde plea sends risk assessment warning;
  
• Fatality investigation reveals unrelated safety breaches; and
  
• LPG fire foreseeable and foreseen.

An employer has been fined for OHS breaches after a worker was crushed by an unbraced concrete wall, while another has been fined after a worker was dragged into a machine.

• "Bullied" worker's unfair dismissal claim rejected; and
  
• Worker fined for safety breach at kids' party.

A major employer has been fined $70,000 for safety breaches identified during an investigation into a work-related fatality, even though the breaches didn't contribute to the incident or death.