Browsing: WHS decisions (VIC)

Employers are not required by workplace health and safety laws to "hold the hand" of experienced workers, but must take steps to ensure they have the skills to spot risks and select safe work methods, a court has found in upholding a worker's damages claim.

A major employer that sent an executive to a "well-intentioned" but unnecessary and not risk-assessed workplace health check "causally contributed" to her death, a coroner has found.

A government department has been fined $200,000 for workplace safety breaches, after a seven-year-old student sustained fatal injuries on a substandard ramp. Meanwhile, PCBUs have been reminded of licensing rules, after a crane overturned.

An employer has been convicted and fined $220,000 for "serious" departures from its legal duty to non-workers, in the lead up to the suicide death of a youth in its care.

• Related companies commit identical WHS breaches in two states; and
  
• Are you going home on time today? Your health needs it.

A company has been convicted and fined $550,000 for supervision failures that led to the "catastrophic" deaths of two workers engulfed in a trench collapse.

• 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 court has rejected a worker's claim his employer negligently provided him with faulty equipment that forced him to adopt injury-causing postures. It found his symptoms arose from the "general physical nature" of his duties, not any acts of negligence.

An employer has been convicted and fined $500,000 for multiple workplace safety breaches, after an investigation into a 4.5-metre fall found it engaged in unsafe height practices at five sites.

• Another duty holder charged with COVID safety breaches;
  
• Individual fined $50k for carbon monoxide failings; and
  
• Traumatic brain injury attracts penalties for PCBU, director.