National: AMMA criticises industrial manslaughter "mess"; NSW to hold second Safety Summit in August; Queensland turns around electrical fatality record; Victoria enters "new era" of OHS; and WA case a warning to provide edge protection.
A general manager employed primarily to look after a NSW company's financial matters has been fined $5,000 over a forklift driver's death, as part of a total of $297,500 in fines levied against four parties.
A South Australian tuna farming company that failed to ensure workers wore life vests and instead instructed them to "swim like hell" if they fell overboard has failed to prove it wasn't guilty of OHS offences.
NSW: Systems of work must be clear to be safe; Tasmania: Absence of prior incidents didn't indicate no risk; and NSW: Worker's psychiatric reaction to incident was foreseeable.
A Queensland worker has won a $650,000 damages award from his employer after the Queensland Court of Appeal found it negligently failed to train him how to safely alight from a locomotive.
SA launches school safety project; Queensland proposes new assessment regime; Victorian "SWAT" program enters second phase, New legislation aligns three health and safety acts; WA WorkSafe fees to increase; and Comcare releases final draft of rehabilitation guidelines.
Two weeks of piecemeal work an employee performed before he was injured was not enough to establish that the work was regular and that it should have been factored into his weekly compensation, the SA Workers Compensation Tribunal has ruled.
