Sex Laws – France vs. Australia
Australian courts sensibly decide on the definition of “work-related injury”.
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2019
Three Workplace Accidents in Three Hours
A man has died and another is in a critical condition in one of three workplace accidents in just three hours in Sydney this morning.
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Student Breaks Neck on Worksite
A Canberra developer will pay a fine of $180,000 after a 16-year-old school student fell off a ladder and broke his neck on its worksite, but the ACT’s work safety boss says the fine is not steep enough to deter slipping safety standards.
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Bully fined $116,250
A Melbourne director and his security company have been convicted and fined a total of $116,250 for repeatedly bullying employees in the workplace.
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Cane Grower Fined
A Burdekin sugar cane farmer has been fined $35,000 after one of his workers suffered serious burns in a cane fire. The worker required multiple skin grafts following the incident on a Jarvisfield farm on August 19, 2017.
Keeping Accidents Real
An operator was driving a load haul dump (LHD) vehicle in an underground roadway at Mannering Colliery when a damaged roof support strap entered the open cab and hit the operator in the head.
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Employer fined $90,000
A $90,000 penalty has been imposed on a company after an employee had his hand amputated due to a workplace incident.
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Young girl crushed to death in horror accident
A child has died after a horror workplace incident in western Queensland. Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHS) were alerted to the death of a girl at a workplace incident in Roma at 8.50pm Tuesday. It is understood she was a seven-year-old girl who was crushed by a tyre in a storage shed while she was playing.
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Man fined for assaulting WorkSafe inspector
A man has been convicted and fined $3500 for assaulting a WorkSafe inspector at a construction site in Elwood, Victoria.
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Man dies after fall from ladder
A subcontractor has died after falling from a ladder at a residential construction site at Rutherglen, in Victoria’s north-east.
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Serious injuries not just physical
More than 100,000 serious workplace injuries still occur every year. These range from mental stress, to trips and falls, to collisions with objects.
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Farms are some of the most dangerous workplaces in Australia
Official workplace fatality figures from 2017 showed there were 43 deaths in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector that year, just three fewer than the 46 deaths in the transport and warehousing industry — yet agriculture employs half the number of people.
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OHS training organisation fined $200,000
ATTA Quality Training Pty Ltd was convicted in Sunshine Magistrates Court after it pleaded guilty to 14 charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 of knowingly providing false information.
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Man crushed to death
A horror death at Western Meat Exporters in Charleville has sparked a Workplace Health and Safety investigation.
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One dead, two in hospital after crane hits powerlines
A 49-year-old Gordonvale man has died and two men are in hospital after a crane came into contact with powerlines at a workplace in Far North Queensland.
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