A worker who injured her back while lifting heavy trays has been awarded nearly $160,000 in damages, after a court found her employer negligently failed to provide proper manual handling training or enforce a 10kg lifting limit.
A worker who threw a six-kilogram object from an elevated work platform in a "moment of madness", seriously injuring an apprentice, has been found guilty of recklessness and handed a suspended prison sentence.
A PCBU has been prosecuted and fined for failing to ensure forklift loads were properly secured when raised onto high racking, while a company and one of its workers have been fined for breaching safety laws and the "Wiring Rules".
In a case examining WHS clauses on the provision of PPE, a commission has stayed an improvement notice blocking a university from charging students to be fit tested for masks, finding it is arguable the students are the "workers" of placement providers rather than the university.
A company that failed to implement a proper inspection regime for the overhead cranes in a building it leased to a business has been fined for WHS breaches, after debris fell from one of the cranes and struck a worker. Another company has been fined for a string of safety and dangerous goods breaches identified by an investigation into a worker's serious burns.
One of the growing number of employers charged with COVID-related workplace health and safety breaches has been sentenced in Victoria. In Queensland, a PCBU has been fined after its failure to act on safety complaints led to a worker suffering serious wrist injuries.
A company that was fined $250,000 over safety contraventions that led to a worker suffering an electric shock from powerlines, has had its appeal rejected for the second time, with a court highlighting the control measures the PCBU failed to implement.