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An employer has been convicted and fined $450,000 over a fatality, after a practice of leaving a worker alone to perform high-risk work "developed into a procedure in its own right" to allow his supervisor to complete residual tasks like paperwork.
A PCBU has been convicted and fined $450,000 after a worker was fatally crushed, with a court rejecting its managing director's claim that its culpability was reduced by the alleged failure of workers to assess and control risks.
A PCBU that could have prevented the death of an 18-year-old worker through simple visual inspections has been handed one of the highest WHS fines in NSW history.
An individual has been convicted and fined heavily over a fatality, in a "unique" case involving a failure to implement engineering controls to "cure a defect" in the design of a piece of equipment.
A company has been convicted and fined $300,000, and ordered to undertake a WHS project, after a worker was killed performing a high-risk task she was "completely unqualified" for.
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A PCBU's WHS fine over a worker's death in a fall has been increased four-fold to $300,000, with an appeals court finding the fatal risk would have been obvious from a single "glance" at the relevant work area, and the PCBU's safety personnel failed to take steps to reduce the risk despite discussing it in meetings.
