A Northern Territory council faces more than $7 million in fines after one of its workers nearly drowned when an amphibious weed harvester tipped and capsized.Northern Territory’s workplace safety regulator has charged the council with nine counts of breaching workplace health and safety regulations following the incident in February 2020.NT WorkSafe s…
The NSW Resources Regulator has issued a safety alert after a worker was left stranded for seven hours when an excavator became immobilised about 200m offshore in the NSW Hunter Valley.The Resources Regulator said the 14-tonne amphibious excavator was immobilised after one of its tracks was damaged. The incident happened in June 2022.“The emergency pro…
A Port Adelaide company has been fined $100,000 for breaches of workplace safety rules after a worker died following a fall through a roof in December 2019. The 51-year-old man was working on a roof when he fell 6.5 metres to the concrete below, sustaining fatal injuries.A SafeWork SA investigation found that the company did not take measures to reduce…
NT WorkSafe reminds workplaces to ensure that septic tank lids on their properties are safe and secured after a four-year-old child fell into a full septic tank in the Barkly Region last week. “Unsecured or fragile septic tank lids are a major hazard if access to the lid is not limited or controlled,” NT WorkSafe said on Wednesday.In December 2021, an…
A new study has found that farmers aged 55 years and over are more likely to suffer fatal workplace injuries compared to their younger counterparts.According to researchers, farm vehicles, including quad bikes, tractors and utes, are the leading cause of deaths and injuries on Australian farms.The findings of the study, published in the Australian Jour…
Figures so far this year indicate six people have died in quad bike incidents in Australia.The figures show three of the fatalities occurred in Western Australia.The remaining three fatalities were reported in the Northern Territory, Tasmania, and New South Wales.Safe Work Australia said quad bike-related incidents have killed 64 people in the last fiv…
A Queensland court has ordered a business owner to pay a fine of $5,000 for intimidating a workplace safety inspector.The safety inspector was attending a demolition site on 29 September 2020 when the business owner confronted him. The court heard that the defendant turned aggressive and repeatedly shouted at the inspector.He was shown a WorkSafe ID c…
An underground mine worker has been seriously injured while installing a dewatering pump in South Australia.The incident prompted SafeWork SA to issue a safety warning to mine operators to “develop, implement and maintain safe systems of work.”“While tramming forward, it is believed that the Jumbo ran over the dewatering pump line hose, causing the hos…
The Department of Defence is facing three charges under the federal WHS Act 2011 following an incident that led to the death of one of its workers. The charges relate to an incident in which a Defence technician took his life while on duty on 28 July 2020.Federal WHS regulator Comcare alleges that the Department of Defence failed to provide, so far as…
A man has been killed in a farming incident south of Mackay.The man was found trapped between a tractor and a tree on Friday.RACQ CQ Rescue said the man was working on the tractor when he became trapped.Paramedics attempted to save the man’s life by performing CPR, but he died at the scene.Source: RACQ CQ Rescue.…
The Queensland Government has launched a parliamentary inquiry to examine the safety culture in the local coal mining industry and how the industry has acted on recommendations from a report into an explosion at a central Queensland mine in 2020. “It is critical that Queenslanders can be confident the resources industry is doing everything it possibly…
A Sydney transport company has been fined $210,000 after a truck driver was seriously injured in a workplace incident in September 2019.The company was fined in the District Court of New South Wales after pleading guilty to one charge of failing to ensure as far as reasonably practicable the health and safety of workers. The truck driver was unloading…