blog 836kg on a 600kg Lifter: Why a Worker, Not a Business, Paid the $10,000 Fine A Queensland worker was personally fined after loading an 836kg pallet onto a 600kg tail lifter and asking another business's staff to steady it.
blog The Person Who Never Signed In: A Falling Tree, a Collapsing Gate and Your Duty to the Public A tree felled onto a passing car and a gate that collapsed at a Tullamarine hotel show how often safety systems forget the people who never sign in.
blog Three Weeks to the New Exposure Limits: Could You Show WorkSafe Tasmania Your Review? WorkSafe Tasmania says the first thing it will check from 1 December is a record showing every airborne contaminant was reviewed against the new limits.
blog Earplugs Are Not a Noise Assessment: What SafeWork SA's Hearing Campaign Will Ask For SafeWork SA is targeting noise in road transport and hospitality and wants to see source controls and a current noise assessment, not just earplugs.
blog Checked Only From Above: The Plywood Sheet Two Inspections Missed at Chatswood A 16-year-old trainee fell 3.4 metres through an unmarked plywood cover that a deck walk and a signed handover certificate both missed, because nobody looked from below.
blog 13 Prior Convictions and a 15% Discount: What This Week's Sentences Say About Penalties Toll's $807,500 fine and AAA Trailers' failed capacity to pay argument show what courts weigh when they set a WHS penalty.
blog The Grocer Was Fined. Then the Landlord Was Too: Who Owns the Shared Loading Bay? Springvale Shopping Centre's owners corporation was convicted over a forklift crush in a shared loading bay its own 2019 risk assessment had flagged.
blog A Fivefold Cut With a Later Start: What the Benzene Decision Means for Your Monitoring Benzene's limit drops from 1 ppm to 0.2 ppm on 1 June 2027 and the extra months are only useful if your monitoring can see the new line.
blog Seven Prohibition Notices on a Weekend: Does Your Site Keep Saturday Standards? WorkSafe ACT's weekend blitz in Denman Prospect and Whitlam found more problems per visit than weekday checks, which says a lot about how standards drift.
blog Who Was Standing Under the Load? What Two Crane Alerts Say About Exclusion Zones A 16-storey fall in Victoria and a 4.5 tonne foot crush in Queensland both come back to one question about where people stand while loads move.
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.