Browsing: Authority/inspectorate (VIC)

• Adverse action Bill exceeds $2m after worker "destroyed"; and
  
• Employer fined over two amputation incidents in two months.

• Proposed WHS changes expand diesel-emission duties in NSW;
  
• Injury benefits increased for NSW volunteers and fatality victims; and
  
• Employer convicted over absence of deadly-dust controls.

A company that was recently charged with reckless endangerment, relating to incidents involving the alleged poor condition of its heavy vehicles, has been fined heavily over an earlier fatality and other safety breaches.

• Business fined for breaches that injured child, alert issued; and
  
• WHS achievements and new white card rules highlighted in NT.

• Manager with bullying "injury" ordered to repay $100k;
  
• WHS regulator lays fatality charge and issues blade alert; and
  
• NT amends WHS clause on "white cards", reports powerline incidents.

• Silica safety duties applied to multiple industries in Vic; and
  
• FWC full bench supports paid FDV leave.

• WHS changes to follow Qld inquest into nine quad deaths; and
  
• Business charged with breaching safety duties to killed camper.

A coronial inquiry into the death of a recently immigrated worker has highlighted the very real dangers faced by inexperienced workers and posed by power tools, particularly tools with unsafe modifications or faults.

A company director who failed to ensure his organisation provided fall prevention measures to height workers has become the third entity to be fined over a five-metre fall, while a regulator has expressed frustration after yet another employer was fined for forklift-related breaches.

WorkSafe Victoria has won a preliminary legal skirmish in a case that will consider the powers of its inspectors to control sites and issue clean-up orders based on concerns over public or workplace health following dangerous chemical spillages.