Browsing: Enforceable undertakings (NT)

A regulator has withdrawn its six charges against an employer over a runaway vehicle fatality, after the employer committed $660,000 to installing collision avoidance systems and implemented new engineering controls across its fleet.

A government department that was charged with category 2 WHS breaches after a motorcyclist crashed and died at a road works site, which wasn't set up on accordance with Australian Standards, has been permitted to enter a $1.4 million undertaking in lieu of prosecution.

• Another PCBU enters fatality-related WHS undertaking; and
  
• Employer and director's WHS-related entry fines redirected to union.

Woolworths Ltd has escaped prosecution for category 2 WHS breaches, relating to the death of a man who was run over while sleeping in one of its loading docks, after promising to spend nearly $1.8 million on improving back docks, installing defibrillators and other safety initiatives.

A regulator has defended its decision to accept WHS enforceable undertakings from two PCBUs in lieu of prosecution after a fuel fire at a public event, despite opposition from a number of the victims.

• Legislative change and GPS tracking likely under NSW asbestos plan;
  
• Alleged asbestos offender enters $213k WHS undertaking;
  
• SafeWork NSW award winners announced; and
  
• Lightning protection wins resources safety award.

• Overhead work warning reissued after crane death; and
  
• Two more parties enter WHS undertaking over teenager's fall.

The wishes of a killed worker's family underpinned a safety regulator's decision to accept a $968,000 enforceable undertaking (EU) in lieu of a category 2 WHS prosecution, the regulator's chief executive has told OHS Alert.

• Anti-phone work safety policy applies to stationary vehicles; and
  
• WHS charges withdrawn with safety officer pledge.

Two major employers have entered enforceable undertakings totalling $636,000 - with one already spending $500,000 on rectifications - after workers were potentially exposed to hazardous respiratory environments.