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Employers need to put in place far more comprehensive management plans for handling mental health emergencies in FIFO workplaces, according to one of 18 recommendations from a major new study on the mental health of FIFO workers.
The surge of online, flexible work arrangements and digital employee management processes is one of many ways technological change will disrupt existing WHS management mechanisms and standards, Europe's peak safety agency says in a major report.
A single member of a four-person team of company directors has been fined over a fatality caused by a modified ramp, while a company that failed to act on the recommendations of a safety audit has been fined after the general manager's son lost four fingers in a saw incident.
A major employer charged with failing to provide fit-for-purpose equipment and contributing to a death has been convicted and fined $450,000, while another PCBU has been fined $30,000 for failing to report two rollover incidents.
A company director has successfully argued his safety breaches didn't warrant the near-record fine imposed on him, with an appeals court finding he had been negligent rather than reckless. Meanwhile, a number of employers have been charged and entered undertakings after a child was killed and a young trainee fell six metres.
A host employer has been ordered to pay a worker nearly $270,000 in damages for manual handling injuries he sustained after it switched his task to lifting 55kg objects, without training or supervision.
Employers need to ensure workers using their own cars for work purposes understand they're in a "workplace" with safety duties, an expert panel assembled by Safe Work Australia has highlighted.
The case against an Uber driver charged with negligent driving occasioning death in Sydney raises a series of serious safety questions, including why no other entity has been held to account for the fatigue-related fatality, according to unions.
