blog Seven Days on a Rooftop: What an $8,000 Fine Says About Officer Due Diligence A sole director was convicted after wind blew his company's scaffold off a Sydney rooftop, because he had no system requiring inspections or passing on safety information.
blog Six Warnings in Five Months: The Near Misses Before the Questacon Burns Questacon had six plasma globe incidents before a child was burned. Alongside a fatal Eastwood road plate case, it shows how the duty to visitors and the public gets missed.
blog A PIN on Your Phone: What Victoria's HSR Bill Changes on the Ground Victoria's newly passed bill lets HSRs issue Provisional Improvement Notices digitally and clarifies their document rights, so managers need to know what to do when one arrives.
blog 200 Workplaces, 80 Notices: What NSW's Psychosocial Blitz Says About Your Risk Register Psychosocial requests to SafeWork NSW have doubled in four years and its largest blitz shows a policy on the wall is not the same as a control in the work.
blog Who Said They Were Competent? The Guillotine Behind a $150,000 School Fine A missing guard, an unlocked storeroom and no competency assessment cost a Beechworth student three fingertips. The same three failures show up on farms and shop floors.
blog Fewer Prosecutions, Record Penalties: What a Serious WHS Breach Now Costs Safe Work Australia's data shows prosecutions falling while average penalties hit a record. This month's sentences show why.
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roundup Monthly Roundup — September 2026 Work Health & Safety — Monthly Roundup Monthly Roundup — September 2026 Everything published in the WHS Legislative Brief during September 2026, condensed into one read. Four weekly editions across nine Australian jurisdictions plus New Zealand, Standards and the courts — reduced to the changes that mattered. September 2026 — Weeks 37 to 40
blog Who Taught the Supervisor? The Overlooked Charge in the Chinchilla Apprentice Death The $650,000 Chinchilla penalty turned partly on supervisors who had never been taught how to supervise young workers.
industry-brief Monthly WHS Industry Brief: September 2026 September's WHS and OHS changes by industry: WA fall rules in full, Victoria's on-the-spot falls fines, a 15-year-old killed at a precast yard, NSW's psychosocial blitz and a council on notice.
blog Midnight Tonight: WA's Falls From Height Transition Ends and It Isn't Another Extension The WA construction falls transition ends today. A Victorian solar installer's harness attached to nothing shows what comes next.
blog Reading October Like an Inspector: What Regulators Are Telling You to Fix National Safe Work Month programs and New Zealand's October inspection blitz are an open-book preview of where regulators are looking next.
blog Where Were You Standing? The Question Behind the Tottenham Reach Stacker Fatality Four incidents in this week's brief, from Tottenham to Palmerston, come back to one question about exclusion zones around plant under load.
blog SA's First Industrial Manslaughter Charge Isn't Just a Mining Problem South Australia's first industrial manslaughter prosecution is a signal for every business running ordinary-looking plant.
blog Facilities Duties Aren't a Footnote: What WorkSafe ACT's Reminder Signals WorkSafe ACT's facilities reminder is a test of whether every WHS duty gets the same rigour, not just the headline ones.
blog Workplace Exposure Limits Start 1 December: Why Later Isn't a Plan Workplace Exposure Limits replace exposure standards on 1 December, and regulators want reviews starting now.
blog Safe Work Is for Life: What This Year's Theme Should Change About Your October National Safe Work Month's new theme asks whether your WHS systems protect a career, not just a shift.
blog Was It Actually Isolated? The Question Behind the Truganina Crane Fatality A fatal crane incident at Truganina raises a hard question about isolation verification that showed up twice in this week's brief.