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The safety fine imposed on a host employer that required workers to clean energised equipment has been tripled on appeal, while a company has been convicted and fined for failing to provide information to a regulator for its investigation into two deaths.
Draft changes to training products for WHS certificates and diplomas include "many" non-fit-for-purpose competencies and a new unit on psychological health and safety that does "little to address this important topic", the Safety Institute of Australia has warned.
A major public transport operator has committed $700,000 to OHS undertakings and rectifications, after an apprentice sustained serious burns from a live wire.
Safety complaints are critical to preventing workplace accidents and injuries, but workers need to know they won't be punished for making them, a senior employment lawyer has warned after a survey found that one in 10 workers believe they could get fired for reporting issues.
A major employer has become the second entity to be convicted of WHS offences relating to a load toppling from a forklift driven by an unlicensed labour-hire worker.
A major, incident-strewn road construction project under unprecedented government scrutiny has been ordered to cease work over new safety concerns, while an ongoing study has found that training supervisors to risk-manage manual tasks can slash musculoskeletal claims.
The High Court has rejected another special leave application involving a work-related psychiatric injury in Queensland, with an employer being the losing party on this occasion.
Unions are using Workers' Memorial Day tomorrow to highlight preventable fatalities and call for Queensland's WHS penalties to be adopted nationally, while others have called for better safety leadership and greater focus on vulnerable young workers.
An appeals court has upheld a worker's nearly $2 million damages award, after finding his host employer "permitted" him to depart from its "reasonably safe de facto work system" without ensuring he did so safely.
