A company director has been handed a record-high fine for work health and safety breaches that occurred through his "consent or connivance", and permanently injured a teenage worker.
In an unusual case, two related PCBUs have been fined a total of $210,000 over a teenage apprentice's death, but entered enforceable undertakings in lieu of prosecution for one of the particulars of the offence.
FIFO workers who fear being stigmatised for having mental health problems are up to 24 times more likely than others to experience high psychological distress, according to a major study of Australian remote mining and construction workers.
Three employers have been ordered to pay more than $1.5 million in safety fines and reparations, after two workers were killed - including one who worked nearly 200 hours in the two weeks before his death - and a geotechnical report was ignored.
A major public transport operator has committed $700,000 to OHS undertakings and rectifications, after an apprentice sustained serious burns from a live wire.
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.
Two employers have been convicted and fined for WHS offences, after a 417-visa worker who wasn't provided with translated work instructions sustained serious arm injuries.
