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A company owner will spend the next few months in jail, after dropping her appeal against her sentence for recklessly endangering and killing an employee.
Young workers emulate their co-workers' and managers' risk-taking behaviours and tackling the high risk of injury among them requires raising organisational safety and cultural standards, according to Nordic researchers.
The Australian Defence Force's failure to implement a safety rule recommended after a 2009 fatality - for which it was handed a near-maximum work health and safety fine - contributed to the death of an inexperienced soldier in a live firing exercise, an inquest has found.
Two individuals have been convicted and fined in the latest of a series of WHS prosecutions of company directors. The new cases both involved workers with limited English skills falling from heights.
A PCBU and its director have been convicted and fined a total of nearly $200,000 for conducting weak visual risk assessments and failing to report serious hand injuries to a regulator.
A company director breached WHS laws in failing to adopt special "team handling" measures - outlined in a Code of Practice - for a task requiring workers to apply "high force" for more than 30 seconds, a judge has found.
Two PCBUs and a director have been fined a total of nearly $500,000 after an unsupervised 14-year-old holiday worker was killed, while an employer has been fined over a violent attack on a worker, after a union officially requested the safety prosecution.
A single member of a four-person team of company directors has been fined over a fatality caused by a modified ramp, while a company that failed to act on the recommendations of a safety audit has been fined after the general manager's son lost four fingers in a saw incident.
