Man loses legs in ‘horrific’ workplace accident
The truck driver also suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was crushed by 12m-long steel beams.
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2024
Pot scrubber fails in repetitive injury claim in Mackay District Court
This case serves as an important reminder that employers should appropriately address identified risks to ensure they are not breaching their duty of care to employees. However, a worker’s claim does not necessarily succeed just because they can demonstrate a breach of duty or care by an employer.
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SafeWork NSW Audit Report
On 27 February 2024, the NSW Audit Office (NAO) handed down its much-anticipated findings on the effectiveness of SafeWork NSW’s (SafeWork) performance of its regulatory compliance functions for work health and safety in NSW (Audit Report).
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WorkSafe inspectors to use body-worn cameras
Body-worn cameras will now be used at all times by NT WorkSafe inspectors while conducting compliance checks and investigating workplace incidents, the agency has said.
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Spray painter’s WorkCover claim for terminal condition
In this article, we explore a case where a worker’s claim for terminal benefits under worker’s compensation was denied by WorkCover Queensland as the medical evidence did not suggest the condition would terminate his life.
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Timber business faces court after workplace accident
A Port of Brisbane timber company has been fined tens of thousands of dollars after a “devastating” workplace accident that put an employee in hospital for 40 days.
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Former Jungle Surfing Canopy Tours boss Sheena Mary Walshaw on trial over zip line accident
The widow of a man who plunged to his death in a zip line accident at Cape Tribulation four years ago listened as a witness gave evidence a ‘grandstand’ zip line was put together without recommended equipment.
Industrial manslaughter laws are still new to many parts of Australia, and convictions are rare
With one young father killed in a workplace accident on Wednesday and another fighting for his life in hospital, debate over Australia’s industrial manslaughter laws has been reignited.
Councils fear CEOs could be charged with industrial manslaughter over volunteer firefighter deaths
The death of a volunteer firefighter on Western Australia’s south coast has raised concerns among local governments about the scope of new workplace health and safety laws.
‘Shameful’: Qantas fined $250k for standing down worker
Qantas has been fined $250,000 after it was found guilty of breaching workplace health and safety laws and discriminatory conduct in standing down a worker for raising COVID-19 concerns.
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Spate Of Serious Injuries Leads To $545,000 Fine
The incidents include two people suffering serious burns when a worker tried to extinguish a fire with liquid that turned out to be unlabelled methylated spirits, a worker suffering a head wound and concussion after part of a machine fell on his head, and machinery lacerating a worker’s finger.
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Sign company and bully boss fined $40,000
A company director and his Oakleigh South signage firm have been convicted and fined a combined $40,000 over the long-term bullying of a sub-contractor.
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Review of SafeWork NSW concludes: increased enforcement expected
In late 2022, the NSW Government commissioned the Honourable Justice Robert McDougall KC to undertake an independent review of SafeWork NSW’s performance of its enforcement, educational functions, structure and organisational separation, and governance and culture.
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Spray booth collapse leads to heavy fine
A steel fabrication business and a director have been fined a total of $92,500 in the Townsville Magistrate court for a workplace incident involving a trailer collapsing while a worker was prepping it in an onsite spray-painting booth.
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Bunnings worker gets $1.25 million payout
Merchandiser Sarah Jane severely injured her back while working at Bunnings and says she is still suffering today.
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