In a recent ruling at the Melbourne County Court, Dennis Jones Engineering Pty Ltd, along with its sole director Dennis Jones, faced the court for their violations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS).
Company faces record-breaking $2.1 million penalty over worker’s traumatic injury Read More »
A small business owner was found to have breached his duty of care to take precaution against a foreseeable risk of injury when a warehouse worker suffered an injury while forcefully using a pallet jack in the midst of time pressures.
Time pressure + no risk of assessment = injured worker Read More »
A council worker has died after he fell off a ride-on lawn mower in a small town on Tasmania’s west coast.
Ride on mower death Read More »
In 2019, an apprentice worker of a marine industrial engineering company, Aimex Ltd, suffered a hypoxic brain injury after being overcome by toxic fumes while cleaning the engine of a boat with brake cleaner.
The consequences of dishonesty Read More »
Boss slapped strung-up apprentice at work Christmas party
Boss slapped strung-up apprentice at work Christmas party Read More »
Dennis Jones Engineering and its director, Dennis Jones, have been slapped with one of the biggest fines in WorkSafe history today (November 9) in Melbourne’s County Court.
Huge fine for Company and director after workplace injury Read More »
A company that owns a vegetable farm and packing facility in Mandogalup has been fined $15,000 over an incident in which a worker’s arm was injured when it was trapped in a conveyor belt.
Vegetable business fined $15,000 after worker’s arm caught in conveyor Read More »
Portland Rusty Scrap Metal Pty Ltd was sentenced in the Warrnambool Magistrates’ Court last Friday after pleading guilty to one charge of failing to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, that persons other than employees were not exposed to health and safety risks.
Scrapper fined $95,000 after customer’s leg severed Read More »
