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Construction company fined $270,000 after fatal fall

13 March, 2025. 3 minute read. In February 2025 a family-operated Victorian construction company was convicted and fined $270,000 after a...

Deaths from falls

15 January 2025. 5 minute read. Fatalities caused by falling from heights remains the second highest cause of workplace deaths in...

Business owners, Directors, and CEOs may face up to 25 years imprisonment under new Industrial Manslaughter laws

From 16 September 2024 Industrial manslaughter is now an offence in New South Wales. This means that business owners, directors and CEOs...

Ladder Safety at Work and at Home

Ladders are often used at work and at home to get access to higher or lower levels in order to carry out light tasks. But every year many...

Bullying and Harassment costs Director $15,000 in fines

Warehouse risk management failures lead to $35,000 fine

Medicinal Cannabis & the Workplace: Is Your Drug & Alcohol Policy Still Fit for Purpose?

Proposed amendments to the WHS Act

Fire Training does not have to be delivered only by an RTO

Fire wardens and emergency plans

What does it take to be an HSR trainer?

Victoria tightens the noose in light of non-compliance with OHS prosecutions

Menopause is not a "WHS matter"

Liabilities of Directors in new Industrial Manslaughter laws

“Hands on” Director not prosecuted

Employer convicted and fined for failure to provide information

Construction company fined $270,000 after fatal fall

Foreign businesses must abide by Australian Work Health and Safety Laws

How the Model WHS laws came to be

Deaths from falls

Business owners and Directors: Questions to ask yourself

$40,000 fine for warehouse traffic management plan failures

Business owners, Directors, and CEOs may face up to 25 years imprisonment under new Industrial Manslaughter laws

Lack of training leads to $100,000 fine

Worker amputation leads to two businesses prosecuted and fined

Can Workers be prosecuted under the WHS Legislation?

Is vaping in the office ok?

Should an HSC be involved in issue resolution or health and safety disputes?

Labour hire workers and WHS

Upstream Duty Holders

Three Categories of WHS Offences and a Table of NSW Penalty Units (2024-2025)

Judge comes down hard on “reckless indifference”

Man’s hand crushed in machine

HSR training is not “optional”

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Work Health and Safety Articles

Construction company fined $270,000 after fatal fall

Deaths from falls

Business owners, Directors, and CEOs may face up to 25 years imprisonment under new Industrial Manslaughter laws

Ladder Safety at Work and at Home

Bullying and Harassment costs Director $15,000 in fines

Warehouse risk management failures lead to $35,000 fine

Medicinal Cannabis & the Workplace: Is Your Drug & Alcohol Policy Still Fit for Purpose?

Proposed amendments to the WHS Act

Fire Training does not have to be delivered only by an RTO

Fire wardens and emergency plans

What does it take to be an HSR trainer?

Victoria tightens the noose in light of non-compliance with OHS prosecutions

Menopause is not a "WHS matter"

Liabilities of Directors in new Industrial Manslaughter laws

“Hands on” Director not prosecuted

Employer convicted and fined for failure to provide information

Construction company fined $270,000 after fatal fall

Foreign businesses must abide by Australian Work Health and Safety Laws

How the Model WHS laws came to be

Deaths from falls

Business owners and Directors: Questions to ask yourself

$40,000 fine for warehouse traffic management plan failures

Business owners, Directors, and CEOs may face up to 25 years imprisonment under new Industrial Manslaughter laws

Lack of training leads to $100,000 fine

Worker amputation leads to two businesses prosecuted and fined

Can Workers be prosecuted under the WHS Legislation?

Is vaping in the office ok?

Should an HSC be involved in issue resolution or health and safety disputes?

Labour hire workers and WHS

Upstream Duty Holders

Three Categories of WHS Offences and a Table of NSW Penalty Units (2024-2025)

Judge comes down hard on “reckless indifference”

Man’s hand crushed in machine

HSR training is not “optional”