blog A Sheet of Ply and a $2,091 Ticket: Where Falls Enforcement Is Heading An uncovered laundry chute in Glenmore Park, 1,406 ACT notices and Victoria's new on-the-spot fines all point at the same basic falls controls.
blog Trained in English Only: What a Crushed Hand Says About Instructions Workers Can't Read A $30,000 fine over a crushed hand shows that a procedure workers cannot read is not a control, however good your wider OHS system looks.
blog 0.3 ppm Is Not Your Exposure Limit: What the Phosphine Statement Says About WELs The 0.3 ppm on phosphine labels is a clearance figure rather than a health-based limit, which makes it a useful test of every number your site manages to before 1 December.
blog The Last Week of Safe Work Month: Are Your Manual Task Assessments Still True? Safe Work Month closes with a focus on musculoskeletal disorders, which makes this the week to check whether your manual task assessments still match the work.
blog A Minute or Two After It Stopped: The Refuelling Step Behind Two Burns Cases A $210,000 fine near Forbes and new charges at Ferryden Park both turn on the same unwritten step: how long petrol plant sits before anyone refuels it.
blog A Paper System: What the Rare Young Mining Category 1 Conviction Says to Officers A NSW court called Young Mining's safety system a paper system that was never implemented. Two more director cases this week show that signing off is not due diligence.
blog Inadequate Toilets in a Psychosocial Notice: The Greenbushes Lesson on Facilities WorkSafe WA's improvement notice to Talison at Greenbushes treats poor amenities as part of psychosocial harm, which means your facilities and wellbeing duties belong in the same conversation.
blog Banned for 12 Months: What Tasmania's Workplace Protection Orders Bill Can and Can't Do Tasmania's draft Bill would let courts bar violent people from workplaces for up to 12 months, but your occupational violence controls still have to work before the first incident.
blog One Hazard, One Fix: Making Safe Work Month Week 2 Count Safe Work Month Week 2 asks you to map one hazard and find one improvement. WorkSafe ACT's claims data shows where most small businesses should start.
blog Nothing Was Holding It: The Missing Step Behind an $810,000 Ravensthorpe Fine A Roman Shield pinned a worker at Ravensthorpe because the JHA never asked what holds the load once the bolts come out. A Hunter Valley backscratching collision shows the same gap.
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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