WorkSafe is reminding employers about controlling risks associated with using ozone generating machines.
A laundry within an aged care facility uses an ozone generator to clean clothes and sheets in cold water, killing bacteria and viruses.
Labour hire company fined $415,000 after worker’s death
A labour hire company has been convicted and fined a total of $415,000 after a fruit picker died following a fall from a moving trailer during his second shift with the company.
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Employers cop $13.3 million for safety breaches in 2024
Victorian employers faced serious legal and financial consequences for putting workers at risk last year, with WorkSafe completing 119 successful health and safety prosecutions and enforceable undertakings.
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Horse trainer’s company charged over deadly crash
A prominent horseracing identity’s company has been charged with workplace health and safety breaches over a car crash that seriously injured five people and killed four horses.
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Melbourne school and travel company fined $300k over student’s death
Melbourne School And Travel Company Fined 300k Over Students Death
Total fines of $290,000 have been charged against a travel company and a school after a 16-year-old boy suffered fatal diabetes complications during a school trip to Vietnam in 2019.
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Worker convicted after forklift death
A worker has been convicted and placed on a six month good behaviour bond following the death of a colleague who was struck by a forklift load at a warehouse near Geelong.
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Empathy in Action: Returning Workers to Health and Meaningful Work
The workers’ compensation industry is often seen through a lens of financial transactions, regulatory compliance, and cost containment.
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Boy dies after being crushed by falling parking meter
A child has died in hospital after being crushed by a falling parking meter stored in a museum courtyard.
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Gate repairer fined $350K over truckie’s death
A repair company has been convicted and fined $350,000 after a 59-year-old man was crushed by a falling 1.1 tonne gate in Dandenong South.
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Worker’s injury while commuting fails compensation test
The County Court of Victoria recently dealt with a case where a worker sought compensation under the Transport Accident Act 1986. She argued that injuries from a bus incident impacted her ability to work and her future employment prospects.
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Which retail and wholesale workers are most at risk of injury?
In the retail and wholesale industry, employees in their first year on the job account for more than a third of all work-related injuries, a recent analysis shows.
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Charges after telehandler incident causes brain injury
WorkSafe has charged a Gippsland irrigation company after a worker was seriously injured when he was struck by a telehandler at a Yarram dairy farm.
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Worker’s ‘gruesome’ hand injury results in $50k fine for company
Manufacturing company Cryoquip was recently sentenced after pleading guilty to two charges of failing to provide a safe workplace in the Dandenong Magistrates Court.
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Golf carts and kangaroo crashes: Who’s to blame when a worker gets injured at a Christmas party?
With most organisations right in the middle of their Christmas get-togethers, many may realise that injuries at end-of-year parties do happen – but whose fault is it?
Failure to follow disciplinary procedures can be costly
High Court rules employee entitled to damages for psychiatric injury caused by employer’s breach of contract – unpacking the case of Elisha v Vision Australia Limited [2024] HCA 50 On 11 December 2024 the High Court of Australia found damages were available for psychiatric injury to an unfairly dismissed employee in circumstances where the injury
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