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Employers should implement specific risk mitigation strategies for workers simultaneously exposed to radiofrequency fields and other heat sources, like physical exertion or insulated PPE, according to new international guidelines.
An employer that incorrectly assumed a WHS manager had implemented its safety systems at a new site has become the second entity to be convicted over a serious forklift incident.
A PCBU has been convicted and fined $375,000, after a court found its system of work required a vehicle to unnecessarily reverse for long distances and led to a teenage worker falling and being crushed to death.
A worker sustained fatal injuries in a fall after being directed to perform a task that prevented him from maintaining three points of contact on a ladder, a judge has found in convicting and fining an individual for WHS breaches.
A reasonable person in a major employer's position would have foreseen that workers would adopt timesaving and dangerous methods of performing a repetitive task, an appeals court has ruled in upholding a $1 million damages award.
A workplace health intervention reduced participants' sitting time by nearly an hour a day and built "office comradery", but highlighted the challenge of improving the sedentary habits of employees working from home, an Australian study has found.
A labour-hire company that failed to conduct risk assessments at a host workplace has entered an OHS undertaking in lieu of prosecution, in a move that could affect the viability of the business in Victoria under the State's new licensing scheme.
Following a procedure mandated by a PCBU in its cardinal safety rules would have cost nothing, taken just a few minutes and prevented a subcontractor sustaining permanent brain injuries at a customer's site, a judge has found in sentencing the PCBU.
In a rare and important decision, a court has increased a Heavy Vehicle National Law fine four-fold after examining the severity of the safety breach and the legislative purpose of the scheme. Meanwhile, the regulator has launched a safety-breach hotline and the consultation process for a "master" chain-of-responsibility code.
