New figures released by Safe Work Australia during National Safe Work Month show that the rate of work-related fatalities in 2024 is lower than the 5-year average from 2020 to 2024. However, claims for Mental health conditions continue to rise.
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WorkSafe has charged the general manager of a chemical manufacturing company after a worker died at a Derrimut factory in October 2023.
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A Keysborough warehousing and logistics company and its sole director have been convicted and fined a total of $1.43 million following the fatigue-related death of a delivery driver.
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An asphalt company has been fined $80,000 after an employee died when he was run over by a colleague driving a skid steer loader at the workplace, after hours.
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Two related elevator companies have been convicted and fined a total of $930,000 after an apprentice electrician died while working for his father in West Melbourne.
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A Queensland company has been fined $400,000 and slammed for not seeing the ‘obvious’ risks that led to the death of an apprentice in a horrific explosion.
Magistrate Webster of the Magistrates Court of Tasmania has acquitted a sole trader charged under the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (Tas) (the WHS Act) following the 2021 Hillcrest Primary School tragedy in which six children died and others were seriously injured while using a jumping castle during a school event.
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WorkSafe has charged a transport company and a commercial laundry operator after a driver died following a fall from a truck’s elevated tailgate at Dandenong South in June 2023.
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WorkSafe has charged a diesel mechanic after a worker was fatally struck by the garbage truck he was operating in June 2023.
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Work on farms accounts for one in every five workplace deaths in NSW.
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The fine handed down to the first company prosecuted under Victoria’s workplace manslaughter laws has been more than doubled on appeal.
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A metal galvanizing business has been convicted and fined $340,000 after a worker was fatally crushed when a suspended load fell from a crane at a Dandenong South factory.
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The death of a man who was hit by a truck at a recycling centre in Sydney’s west has triggered a safety warning at worksites across NSW. An investigation has been launched after the man in his 50s died while working at the Greenacre site about 7.30pm yesterday. Just hours earlier, a worker in his
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Emergency services were called to the scene at Auld St in Eastwood about 8.45am Wednesday.
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While transport, construction and agriculture were the deadliest sectors in 2024, workplace fatalities were spread across more than half of all industries and involved dozens of occupations.
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