Employers can improve safety through the "moral choice" of reducing job demands and increasing resources, while workers must take responsibility for their own work-life balance, according to recommendations from a recent worrying survey of principals.
An employer has been convicted and fined for WHS breaches, after its director identified a serious safety risk at a worksite, but then left without ensuring the necessary controls were implemented before work commenced.
A worker who incorrectly lowered a loading platform more than 300 times in 18 months, before falling onto a concrete floor, was "wholly responsible" for his injuries, a court has ruled.
An employer that relied on a "specialised expert" contractor to ensure site safety has been convicted and fined $120,000, after a worker fell six metres, while the "more culpable" contractor has escaped conviction, entering an enforceable undertaking instead.
An employer that had extensive safety systems, but failed to adopt two processes that could have prevented a worker from being fatally crushed by falling cargo, has been fined $150,000.
An award-winning civil construction company has taken the guesswork out of one of its highest-risk activities, by creating its own easy-to-use operator guides.
An employer didn't breach its duty of care to a worker, in failing to instruct her on how to safely use a stepladder, because using the ladder was a "relatively straightforward" task, a court has found.
