A business partner has successfully applied to commit $380,000 to WHS initiatives to avoid being prosecuted over the death of a worker in an exclusion zone that wasn't physically marked.
An electricity company has spent nearly $14 million on a safety overhaul, and committed a further $1 million to safety undertakings to avoid prosecution over an electric-shock incident that occurred just months before one of its workers died in similar circumstances.
A commercial construction and contracting company has entered into a $1.7 million enforceable undertaking that includes developing a process for collecting worker insights on safety, and implemented more than $1.6 million worth of additional health and safety rectifications, after the fatal crushing of a worker in 2019.
A major NSW employer has avoided a WHS prosecution, involving a scissor attack that injured several workers, by entering a WHS undertaking, with a State-record spend of more than $3 million, aimed at tackling work-related violence through "whole of system thinking".
A local council has committed to overhauling its contractor management practices, and developing an automated WHS induction program, after being accused, along with two other WHS duty holders, of contraventions resulting in a powerlines incident and serious injuries.
A PCBU's $504,000 enforceable undertaking has provided valuable insight into the wide range of workplace issues that attract the attention of WHS inspectors, including where staff smoke their cigarettes.
A PCBU accused of breaching its WHS duty to control ignition sources, at the time of an injury-causing explosion, has entered a $624,400 undertaking and spent nearly $180,000 on WHS rectifications.
A WHS regulator has rejected a PCBU's bid to enter an enforceable undertaking in lieu of prosecution, after considering the significant impact its alleged offences had on a worker, and its "poor compliance history".