The NSW IRC in Court Session has issued a warning to all employers that they must take special care to ensure the safety of contractors who may be working unsupervised.
The NSW Court of Appeal has upheld a finding that a Pizza Haven franchise breached its duty of care to an employee who was robbed at gunpoint, after it failed to call off a suspicious delivery.
WorkSafe WA has released a new code of practice for the call centre industry, and has issued a warning to animal handlers that they must be appropriately vaccinated.
A South Australian fishing company that lost a worker overboard has been fined $45,000, with the SA IR Court accepting that communicating its findings to the rest of the industry would be a far greater deterrent than any penalty.
A NSW director has been found to have low culpability for a workplace fatality because he had employed "competent" people to manage his companies' operations.
A Parliamentary Inquiry into Victoria's labour hire industry has recommended amending the State's new OHS Act to clarify that labour hire and host employers only have responsibility for the aspects of OHS that each "controls".
The SA IR Court has overturned a decision not to impose a conviction against a company after a serious OHS incident, finding that the fact it sold its manufacturing business didn't mean it was unlikely to re-offend.
