Browsing: Authority/inspectorate (VIC)

• Man sentenced for reckless forklift operations;
  
• Trailer rethink demanded after fatal falls and conviction; and
  
• NDIS incidents prompt WHS warning.

• Criminal checks of safety representatives enabled by NSW WHS Bill; and
  
• Injury-surveillance crackdown agreed to in Vic, in principle.

An employer has been fined for workplace management and control breaches, after a heavy object fell 160 metres from a 58-storey development in the heart of Melbourne. Meanwhile, a regulator has outlined safety control measures for hydraulic equipment, after an apprentice was killed.

• New safety consultation and labour-hire laws commence in Vic;
  
• Consolidated electricity safety laws introduced in Tas; and
  
• Workers' comp changes proposed by Tas.

• New incident notification duties assented and explained; and
  
• Management company breaches WHS Act at warehouse.

A major employer breached its safety duties by producing inaccurate sectionalised diagrams for an infrastructure upgrade, a court has found in convicting and fining it $100,000. Meanwhile, Queensland's workplace safety awards have opened.

• Have you assessed your workplace buildings for asbestos? A WHS regulator is checking, in support of national plan; and
  
• Employer fined after forklift load falls.

A company and its director have been fined heavily for failing to ensure fall prevention measures were in place before height work commenced, with their breaches resulting in a man falling from a plank. Another company has been fined for failing to ensure the harnesses it provided to personnel were worn at all times.

Two companies have been charged, within a matter of days, in relation to separate but very similar fatalities involving shipping containers and stone slabs. Meanwhile, a union official has been accused of unlawfully ignoring a workplace's COVID-19 rules and safety signage.

• New near-miss duties and injury provisions pass in Vic; and
  
• Miller to identify barriers to managing ACT's psychosocial hazards.