A major public healthcare provider has been convicted and fined $340,000 for breaching workplace health and safety laws in failing to identify and control a suicide risk to a patient.
A labour-hire company and a host employer have both been fined for safety failures relating to unguarded plant, with a court outlining the measures the former could have taken to prevent an injury and prosecution.
* New Comcare team to target major infrastructure projects; * COVID-related workers' comp clause extended in NSW; and * Mobile phone crackdown coming to Vic.
Two workplace duty holders charged with recklessly endangering a client, who died, will be tried by a judge alone without a jury, following an appeals court decision aimed at reducing the backlog of criminal trials caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
* Business owner fined heavily for COVID breaches; * Employer and director fined over bypassed safety mechanisms; and * Vic opens safety awards, reveals financial results and issues fatality alert.
An employer will contend the risk control measures it is accused of failing to implement are not reasonably practicable steps and would interfere with the basic rights of the non-employees they're intended for, a court judgment has shown.
A worker seeking damages has failed to prove he was not properly trained in his employer's new communication and defect reporting systems, and this caused him to suffer injuries on a defective seat.
> Consignor charged with safety breaches in Australian first; > Director faces jail under fatality-related gross negligence charge; and > Traffic management for horse work allegedly missing before death.
