> New diesel threshold takes immediate effect in WA; > Federal Bill creates new framework for chemical risk controls; > Change management process missing at time of tank rupture; and > Safety inspectors rebuild failed structure for fatality probe.
> Site-specific induction overlooked before powerlines incident; > High WHS fines for mines pass Tas Parliament; and > SWA urges duty holders to eliminate common fatality risk.
An employer with a long history of safety contraventions has been fined for opting to implement its preferred height safety measures, at a site where a backpacker worker was killed in a fall, instead of the measures prescribed by law.
> Work safety incidents attract second round of fines; > WHS changes creating new PCBU duties for quad bikes in Tas; and > NSW workers invited to challenge past injury payments.
An employer with a woeful safety record has been ordered to pay $564,000 in fines and costs, in Western Australia's first finalised gross negligence case.
A business operator who failed to instruct workers on how to self-manage their work capacity in hot conditions has been fined over the heat stress death of a backpacker employee. Meanwhile, a company and one of its directors have been fined for failing to comply with or display a forklift-related prohibition notice.
An employer was not required to embark on a formal risk assessment process for the "light-hearted recreational activities" it organised for a Melbourne Cup event, and could not be held vicariously liable for the alleged injury-causing actions of an employee at the event, a court has found.
James Hardie has been ordered to pay for expensive, advanced immunotherapy treatment for a mesothelioma sufferer, in a landmark case setting a "significant precedent" for future damages awards for workplace victims and others.
An employer that failed to convey the seriousness of a worker's allergy to the workplace where he was based has been fined for safety breaches, after the man was stung by a bee and died.
