Browsing: Authority/inspectorate (NT)

• COVID vaccines mandated for multiple Qld sectors, visiting workers;
  
• Lightning-related WHS duties outlined after fatality; and
  
• WHS activities affected by COVID: major SWA report.

• Department fined for violence-related safety breaches;
  
• Three interpretive guidelines released for WA's WHS Act; and
  
• Scrutiny warning issued ahead of industrial manslaughter session.

A man has been fined for category 2 and 3 WHS breaches and ordered to forfeit unsafe plant for destruction, after two of his patrons were seriously injured.

• Duty holders fined over amputation on custom-made plant; and
  
• Electrical warning issued after three WHS fines imposed.

• Vaccine mandates extended to dozens of occupations in Vic; and
  
• New WHS strategic plan targets five sectors in NT.

• Mandatory COVID vaccine rule applied to another industry; and
  
• Plant warning issued in format first for WHS regulator.

A PCBU faces a maximum, record-shattering WHS penalty of up to $35 million, while its chief operating officer could be jailed for five years, after they were charged with a total of 14 reckless conduct breaches relating to a fatality.

A man has been convicted of two category-1 WHS breaches - the first reckless conduct convictions recorded in his jurisdiction. After he was sentenced, a regulator slammed his workplace's stoic culture and the inaction of witnesses to a teenage worker's serious burns.

In a case involving a four-year legal battle and High Court ruling on the reach of WHS laws, a PCBU has been convicted and fined $120,000 over the death of a patron in a ballooning incident.

In the latest of a growing number of reckless conduct cases, a company director and a worker could both be jailed for up to five years, after being charged over the death of a man within the "strike radius" of mobile plant.