A Queensland company has been ordered to pay a $400,000 fine and a conviction recorded against them after the death of a voluntary ground official when a scaffold tower fell on him at a Mitchelton Sports complex on the 25th July 2021. The defendant, Mobile Scaffolds Queensland Pty Ltd, was charged with failing to comply […]
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For the first time, a strata management company and an owners’ corporation have been prosecuted together by SafeWork NSW over a fatality involving an industrial gate. The worker’s employer was also prosecuted. The three fines issued by the court total $750,000, plus costs. On 22 August in the District Court, the strata manager engaged by
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The Queensland Government has launched a new safety campaign geared towards improving the state’s safety outcomes for industries including construction, manufacturing, health care, and social assistance. Everyone has a responsibility to provide a safe place of work; getting it wrong can have severe emotional, physical, mental, and financial impacts on workers and industry. In 2023,
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Introduction A man sustained severe injuries in a workplace accident at a factory in Melbourne’s west after being dragged into an unguarded machine. The incident highlights the critical importance of workplace safety and the consequences of neglecting proper safety measures. Safety Violations and Consequences Following the accident, WorkSafe Victoria conducted an investigation and found that
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A traumatic brain injury suffered by a Taranaki worker has led to the first sentencing of a consultancy under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Safe Business Solutions (SBS) consultants gave paid health and safety advice to the employer of Grant Bowling, who was knocked unconscious by the bucket of an agricultural vehicle
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Robinson’s Unloading Pty Ltd was sentenced in the Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court on Friday 2 August after pleading guilty to a single charge of failing to provide and maintain a system of work that was safe and without risks to health. The company was, without conviction, placed on a 12-month Good Behaviour Bond and ordered to
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This workplace safety failure could have been “so easily avoided” resulted in a young worker receiving significant injuries. When Metal Manufactures Pty Ltd moved its TLE Electrical outlet to a different premises in Belconnen over late 2021 and early 2022, employees set up three-metre tall racking and placed drums of cables on it weighing several
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Aussies are taking remote work arrangements to the next level by sneaking away on holidays while on the clock. But experts say there’s a better way. Aussie workers are exploiting remote work arrangements to sneak away on holiday without telling their boss. Almost half of Australians have taken or are considering a holiday while officially
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New Curtin University research has revealed at least 46,000 Australian welders are exposed to high levels of dangerous, potentially cancer-causing fumes at work — and little is being done to protect them.
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An electrical manufacturing company and one of its Canberra site managers have been fined more than $400,000 after a worker was crushed by hundreds of kilograms of cable.
Safe Work Australia has updated the WHS prosecutions dashboard to reflect the latest publicly available data from 2023.
An employee who contracted salmonella poisoning while working as a kitchen hand at a café has successfully recovered damages against her employer (the owner of the café), but damages were limited in light of the employee’s activities following the illness.
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