A coroner has expressed dismay at a major employer and a regulator concluding that a supervisor died because he failed to follow a safe working procedure, without considering the adequacy of the man's training and qualifications for the high-risk task that killed him.
An employer has been convicted and fined $135,000 after a worker was seriously injured in an incident that could have been avoided by consulting a readily available Safe Work Australia guide. Meanwhile, a company officer has been fined for failing to exercise due diligence to ensure his company complied with its safety duty.
A new Code of Practice will help duty holders protect the mental health of fly-in-fly-out workers in the resources and construction sectors, but can be applied to other industries, the draft document says. Meanwhile, a regulator has launched a proactive inspection program for scaffolding across Western Australia.
An employer that failed to ensure a load was lifted with a crane instead of a forklift has been fined $500,000 over a fatality. Another employer has been charged over a fall death, and faces possible multi-million-dollar fines.
An employer should have developed a new safe work method statement and submitted it to a principal contractor for assessment after it abandoned its original high-risk work plan, a coronial inquest into a young worker's death has found.
A coronial inquest into a worker's death has pointed to the differing expectations of safety regulators, and the fact that one's policy on "generational" change could be exposing the current generation of workers to "risks that legally should not exist".
Two PCBUs and their directors have been charged with WHS breaches, and face fines of up to $3.6 million, after a teenage worker fell three metres and wasn't provided with immediate medical assistance.
A major employer has been convicted of WHS offences and fined $240,000, plus $51,000 in costs, after a worker was killed when a rusty storage rack collapsed.
An employer's failure to provide and maintain a safe environment on a weekend retreat for employees led to one worker sustaining third-degree burns to 17 per cent of her body, a court has heard.
