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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SafeWork NSW has sought to remind employers that they must provide clean and safe toilet facilities for all staff onsite in accordance with clause 41 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017 (NSW).
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An apprentice was hung from a noose and poked with a drill in his groin as part of prolonged bullying at work, with his employer fined $10,000 over the abuse.
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A Queensland bus company boss has expressed his remorse for failing in his workplace health and safety obligations to two young mechanics killed in a traffic crash on the Sunshine Coast.
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Over the past few years, there has been growing concern and awareness over exposure to silica dust, causing silica-related diseases such as silicosis.
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A worker left paralysed after falling headfirst into a concrete water tank needed a colleague to hold his head above water while he was rescued, a court has been told.
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Queensland’s biggest locally-owned smallgoods company, based in Ormeau, has been fined $70,000 by a Logan court after a teen employee seriously injured his hand in a sausage-making machine.
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A man in his 30s has been taken to hospital after being involved in a forklift incident at Godfrey Hirst in Breakwater.
