Browsing: Jurisdiction (NSW)

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

• Gig death covered by workers' comp Act, family wins $827k; and
  
• Special WHS inquiry triggered by 12th agricultural fatality.

Under WHS laws, no risk assessment was necessary and workers were not required to be consulted prior to the implementation of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, a commission has found in a decision directly affecting 24 sacked workers.

A PCBU and its director have been fined heavily for allowing unqualified, unlicensed and unrestrained workers to perform high-risk work, resulting in one of them suffering life-long injuries when he climbed a pile of materials and fell.

A deputy operations manager, with the NSW Ambulance Service, created a "psychologically unsafe workplace" by inappropriately venting his frustrations over colleagues to his manager, a commission has ruled in rejecting his unfair dismissal appeal.

• 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.

One of three PCBUs charged over an incident where a crane came into contact with overhead powerlines, and two workers suffered serious electric shocks, has been convicted and fined $150,000, plus $102,000 in prosecution costs.

• ILO's WHS decision to have direct impact on workers; and
  
• Product bans and WHS changes flagged by NSW dust inquiry.

A PCBU has been fined heavily twice over two incidents that occurred a year apart at the same site, with a judge stating, "It's hard to imagine a more cavalier attitude to the obligations required under the WHS Act."

• PCBU fined $450k over fatality, another charged;
  
• New digital system slashes SafeWork NSW registration times; and
  
• WHS warning issued to NT's high-risk licence holders.