A company that controlled a work site where three fatalities occurred within six weeks has successfully challenged the admissibility of components of an "expert's" report in a coronial inquest into the deaths.
A coronial inquiry into two carbon monoxide fatalities has warned against modifying generators or installing them in confined spaces. Meanwhile, a regulator has released guidance on preventing deaths in roof spaces.
In an ongoing fatality-related WHS prosecution, a superior court has found that the prosecutor's defective charges aren't invalid because other documents reveal the true nature of the alleged offence. It has also ordered the prosecutor to provide a "confidential" report to the defendant, in a ruling on legal privilege.
An employer should have developed a new safe work method statement and submitted it to a principal contractor for assessment after it abandoned its original high-risk work plan, a coronial inquest into a young worker's death has found.
An employer and landowners have escaped an "enormous" damages bill, after an appeals court overturned a finding that they negligently caused a chain of events that left a young motorist with catastrophic injuries.
State and Commonwealth industrial safety authorities should collaborate on fatality-reduction strategies for quad bikes, develop a star rating system for the vehicles and ensure imported models comply with a US standard, the latest coronial inquest into multiple quad deaths has found.
Coronial investigations into six chainsaw-related fatalities have found they all could have been prevented by complying with the applicable industry code and Australian Standard, or using PPE.
