A Western Australian company has been fined $A50,000 over the death of one of its workers in November 2008 The worker rode a quad bike into a wire gate and died. The recent WorkSafe WA media release focuses, understandably on the fine imposed in the Perth Magistrates’ Court on Jenara P/L but a clearer picture … Continue reading “Quad bike fatality costs over $80k in penalties”
In 2007, Pedro Balading fell off the back of a utility vehicle while working in remote outback Australia and died. On 16 March 2010, the owner of the Wollogorang cattle station, Panoy P/L, was fined $A60,000 over the death. According to one media report: “Pedro Balading, a 35-year-old father of three, was a Manila piggeries supervisor who arrived … Continue reading “The fatal consequences of riding in the tray of a pick-up or ute”
SafetyAtWorkBlog is largely produced from a home-based business and the issues of safety, mental health, work/life balance are real issues in this business. In the development of OHS regulations, a “workplace” has been fairly generic. For at least 50 years, our definition of “workplace” has reflected our individual experience of the places we have worked. (Lately, in … Continue reading “Home-based businesses need OHS consideration”
WorkSafe WA has released a statement detailing the prosecution of Midland Bricks over a worker had his right arm and shoulder torn from his body by a machine in 2006. Midland Bricks was fined $A70,000 over the incident. The factors involved in this incident include the following familiar issues: pinch points machine guarding interlocks emergency stop buttons supervision documentation.
Over the last two weeks, WorkSafe Victoria has released over a dozen reports and summaries about prosecutions over OHS breaches. Some have been highlighted in SafetyAtWorkBlog posts but there are too many for us to cover in detail or to expand upon. Below is a list of those prosecution summaries A Bending Company Pty. Ltd. … Continue reading “Recent WorkSafe Victoria prosecutions”
SafetyAtWorkBlog mainly keeps away from referring to specific court decisions on OHS Prosecutions because, to a large extent, these are decisions of law rather than safety management. The judgements also require clear legal interpretation so that any management lessons of the judgement can be extracted. Another reason is that SafetyAtWorkBlog intends to be a FREE … Continue reading “Successful appeal in finger injury case”