A NSW employer is expanding its due diligence program for senior managers as part of a $200,000 WHS enforceable undertaking (EU), which provides valuable insight into the EU process and how the employer tackled height risks.
Victorian employers have been fined nearly $500,000 after an excavator operator was killed in a landslide, and other incidents, while a man has been fined for obstructing safety inspectors.
An employer that failed to instruct a worker not to stand on scaffolding rails, even if it was "obvious" to workers not to do so, has been ordered to pay him $725,000 in damages, after he fractured his spine in a five-metre fall.
A NSW employer has been fined $300,000 over the death of a young student, while another employer has entered into a $427,000 enforceable undertaking under the State's new WHS Act.
An employer that failed to secure a cage to a forklift for work at heights has been fined $45,000, after a worker fell 1.7m from the cage when it tipped over.
Two South Australian employers, including one that failed to act on a manager's safety warning, have been fined more than $190,000 in separate proceedings, after two workers were injured in falls down voids.
Being hit by falling objects continues to be one of the leading causes of work-related deaths in Australia, according to a major report, which has prompted questions over Western Australia's increasing fatality rate.
A Western Australian employer that failed to ensure workers adhered to a modified elevated work platform's lifting capacity has been fined for OSH breaches, after the machine was overloaded and toppled over. Also in this article, two Queensland farm workers have been killed in vehicle incidents.
Seven Victorian employers have been fined a total of nearly $200,000 for safety breaches, while WorkSafe is reminding employers that new workers' compensation laws - and the regulator's new name - take effect on 1 July.
