Three major government employers face WHS fines of up to a total of $7.55 million, after a worker died in a freezer and a high school student disappeared on a camp exercise. Meanwhile, a WHS regulator has unsuccessfully appealed against a 40 per cent fine reduction.
The sole cause of an apprentice's leg amputation was a PCBU's decision to use a rundown machine, and not the apprentice placing himself in an unsafe position, a court has found. Meanwhile, an employer has been ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in fines and reparations after a worker lost an eye in a chemical incident.
Most workers with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) will visit a physiotherapist at some stage, but physios are also at high risk of MSDs. A new study has identified the measures these experts use to minimise their own risk of injury.
A PCBU that declined to adopt the safety recommendations of an expert who installed equipment at its premises has been convicted and fined for WHS breaches, after a young worker's fingers were amputated.
A young worker has been awarded more than $500,000 in damages after her employer negligently caused her to sustain an injury that did not prevent her from "engaging in a superficially normal life", but impeded her studies and narrowed her employment options.
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.
The Department of Defence faces WHS fines of up to $3 million after two recruits suffered severe electric shocks from powerlines, while a property holding company has been fined over its tardy removal of asbestos left behind by a tenant business, on top of a purported $880,000 clean-up bill.
