Browsing: WHS Harmonisation (National)


TUE
8:57AM

Reckless cost-saving ends in first category 1 conviction

A company's failure to follow its own safety management plans, and its desire to save costs on tradespeople and engineers, led to a horror bathroom fatality and the first conviction for reckless conduct under Australia's harmonised WHS regime.



MON
2:13PM

MON
12:48PM

FRI
2:32PM

WHS manslaughter cases likely to be relatively common

New industrial manslaughter laws that could be adopted nationally are clearly intended to cover a broader range of people than the WHS Act's due diligence obligations, and breaches will be far easier to prove than category 1 offences, according to safety and employment lawyer Katherine Morris.


FRI
3:49PM

MON
2:34PM

WHS changes restore process-based duties: Tooma

WHS amendments that recently passed in Queensland and will be pushed nationally effectively mandate risk management, while the industrial manslaughter provisions "create conflict" in the operation of the WHS Act, according to leading health and safety lawyer Michael Tooma.


THU
2:18PM

Broad WHS objectives "underpin" Vic OHS Act

Understanding the Victorian OHS Act in the context of the model WHS regime is critical for duty holders, with superior courts, for instance, viewing the unstated objects of the former "through the prism" of the latter's broad objectives, according to the latest edition of Victoria's OHS law "bible". (Read on for your chance to win one of three copies!)


FRI
3:30PM

MON
3:14PM

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