Safe Work Australia has released the Key Work Health and Safety Statistics report, which provides an overview of national work-related fatality data for 2020 and workers compensation claims data for 2019–20. Each year, Safe Work Australia produces national work health and safety statistics, providing important evidence on the state of work health... Read more.
Kununurra-based company Guerinoni Nominees Pty Ltd (Guerinoni) has been fined $230,000 and ordered to pay costs of $75,000 after an employee suffered serious injuries while operating an alluvial screening and crushing plant. The company pleaded not guilty but was convicted for failing to provide a safe work environment and... Read more.
Metal treatment business ACE Metal Treatment Services has been convicted and fined $300,000 following the death of a worker who became trapped in an electroplating machine at a Delacombe factory. The electroplater pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to maintain plant that was safe and without risks to... Read more.
Recycling business SKM Services Pty Ltd has been convicted and fined $70,000 after a worker’s hand was amputated at a Coolaroo factory. The company was charged with failing, as far as was reasonably practicable, to provide a safe workplace, and sentenced in Broadmeadows Magistrates’ Court on 22 September. The... Read more.
NT WorkSafe has issued its first Incident Information Release (IIR), after three serious crush incident injuries involving machinery occurred over the last month. IIRs are designed to underscore that a serious incident has occurred; workplaces undertaking similar activities are reminded to stop and review their procedures. Bruce McKinley, Acting... Read more.
