Courts have imposed more than $800,000 in penalties since mid-March, in response to workers being killed on unsafe conveyor belts in the manufacturing industry. Timaru director Sean Sloper and his company Point Lumber Limited are the latest to be jointly sentenced over the death of a young worker, Ethyn... Read more.

Following separate investigations by Energy Safe Victoria and WorkSafe Victoria into the death of an apprentice electrician working unsupervised in 2021, two lift companies have been fined. Facing Victoria’s Supreme Court on 27 June, Nordic Elevator Services Pty Ltd and Nordic Elevators Pty Ltd were ordered to pay $30,000 and $20,000 after pleading... Read more.

In Western Australia, a hay processing company has been fined $595,000 after a worker’s leg became trapped in the cutting chamber of a hay press. The incident occurred in January 2023 at a hay processing plant at Carani in the Wheatbelt. Operating the small hay press was a leading... Read more.

In Western Australia, the death of a worker caught in the mechanism of a salt pit conveyor has led to a $875,000 fine for a salt processing company. W.A.S.S. Nominees Pty Ltd pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain safe plant at the workplace and, by that failure,... Read more.

Basic machine safety failures culminated in the death of a worker at one of New Zealand’s biggest fertiliser companies where obvious risks were overlooked, WorkSafe says. Wesley Tomich was cleaning around a conveyor belt as it was still operational at Ballance Agri-Nutrients in Mt Maunganui in July 2023. The... Read more.