Injury

Melbourne Factory Fined $50K After Worker Seriously Injured

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 company and site manager have been fined almost $400,000

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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Director not guilty of WHS due diligence offences

On 8 March 2024 the NSW District Court handed down a decision which is one of the first cases to meaningfully consider the conduct of an officer charged with a due diligence offence under work health and safety (WHS) legislation (SafeWork NSW v Miller Logistics Pty Ltd; SafeWork NSW v Mitchell Doble [2024] NSWDC 58 (the Doble decision)).

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Danger that led to employee injury was ‘obvious and known to the employer’: NSW court

The District Court of New South Wales recently dealt with a work health and safety case involving a construction company that failed to ensure the safety of its workers, resulting in serious injuries to a painter who fell through a void at a residential construction site.

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