A magistrate "impermissibly reasoned backward", and misapplied the reasonable practicability test, when she found an employer guilty of amputation-related safety breaches and fined it nearly $200,000, a superior court has found.
An employer that could have prevented a fatality by using more appropriate machinery for a high-risk task has been fined $650,000. Meanwhile, an individual has been fined for failing to prepare a health and safety coordination plan, which contributed to a three-metre fall.
> Two individuals fined over fatal fall from mobile plant; > Nearly 1,000 improvement notices issued in safety blitz; and > Australia's first occupational dust diseases register commences.
> Lack of documented loading procedures leads to paraplegia; > Workers' comp transitions and premiums announced in three states; and > New WHS Minister appointed in Tas.
> Should HSRs' offshore powers be aligned with WHS Act? > Manager charged over belittling language and other bullying; and > Major employer and others charged with multiple WHS breaches.
> Height and housekeeping fines top $200k after new round of charges; > New environment statute with WHS clause introduced in NT; and > Design and load skate alerts issued after crush incident.
> Employer and director fined $330k for fatal height breaches; > Winter safety tips and precast panel alert issued in ACT; and > Safety regulations for mine medical records tweaked in Qld.
A business manager who used profane and belittling language when speaking to a worker has been fined for bullying the man, in the latest of a series of safety and workers' comp cases against the business.
A company secretary has been fined for the most serious OHS offence of reckless endangerment for forklift breaches, in one of several new cases showing regulators are willing to prosecute unsafe entities even where injuries haven't occurred.
