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Safety Articles – Prosecutions
Prosecutions:
- How safe are your arrangements for risk management during training?
- Solid OHS Management system doesn’t mean safety management is solid in practice!
- $1.26 Million payout over lost foot
- A public infrastructure is close to a workplace incident
- Are all parts of the plant supplied to you safe?
- Are the way & the hours you use your machines for beyond their design capacity?
- Are we sending the wrong message through our regulators?
- Are you getting the right contractor for the job?
- Are your signs working? Do people follow them?
- ASBESTOS LITIGANTS TO HAVE THEIR DAY IN COURT
- CFMEU Official Loses Permit in NSW
- Company loses appeal over worker death
- Component Maker Fined After Ladder Fall
- Comprehensive OHS Paper System Not Enough
- Contractor driver felt forced to work unsafely
- Damages Awarded for Failure to Provide Adequate Training
- Do you act on WHS expert recommendations?
- Do you assume your workforce is following your systems of work?
- Do you enforce your risk controls?
- Do Your Hazard/Incident Investigations Produce Corrective Actions That Work?
- Do your supervisors and managers provide mixed safety messages by not leading by example?
- Do your workers look at confined space risk assessments before entering them?
- Employer admits fall was caused by “blindingly obvious “ risk
- Enforceable undertaking tackles steel coil safety
- Exposure to diesel fumes always safe?
- Failing to enforce PPE use
- Failure to deal with a risk known about since 1964
- How effective are your equipment inspections?
- How good is the due diligence you do on your training providers?
- How often do you assess personnel health & competency to complete their work tasks?
- How safe is your hired plant?
- How well do you enforce your fit for work procedures?
- How well do you supervise what your forklift drivers do?
- If the risk is low then the courts expect control measures that reflect that
- If you don’t want your employees to handle heavy items you must enforce this
- Is Common Industry Practice a Valid Excuse For Non-Compliance?
- Is Your Company Wasting Lots of Money on Safety that May not be Working to Protect Workforce, Company and Investor Interests?
- Labour Hire Company Fined over “ no union ticket , no start policy
- Lower order control strategies can result in amputations
- No way of doing the job safely is not an adequate defence!
- No way of doing the job safely is not an adequate defence!
- POOR HOT WORK MANAGEMENT LEADS TO A TRAUMATIC RESULT.
- POOR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CHAIN OF EVENTS
- Principal contractor fined $130K after site check in flaw.
- PROSECUTION AFTER DODGY ASBESTOS REMOVAL
- Queensland construction business fined for under paying teenager
- Safety management systems are useless if your procedures don’t address the actual risk!
- SCAFFOLDING COLLAPSE COULD HAVE KILLED DOZENS, COURT HEARS
- Still falling as we don’t communicate risks!
- Still not looking at alternatives to shaving off beards!
- The importance of establishing an exclusion zone was a basic safety procedure when working with heavy equipment
- Union Right of Entry – What Are the Limits?
- Using the right equipment for the job, know how to use it & learn from past stuff ups!
- Using the Right Tool
- Will you have to be prosecuted to determine your risk assessments are inadequate?
- Workplace Bullies Could Face Prison in Queensland