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When a wall collapsed on a windy day during a planned demolition no-one was injured, but the consequences could have been serious. The employer was convicted and fined $90K.  

When a brick wall fell on a young man at a building site, impaling him on a large metal screw piling, his employer’s sole director found himself in the firing line. Read the court’s view of the site’s poor safety record.

The NSW Government’s Healthy Minds, Safer Sites campaign is helping employers address workplace psychosocial hazards. Learn how to identify risks, implement solutions, and foster safer, more productive workplaces

A risky job done by an untrained worker with damaged equipment and no specific guidance; what could possibly go wrong? Read why a court found that simple, inexpensive measures could likely have prevented the accident.

The NSW Industrial Court has imposed its first WHS penalty since its restoration, handing down a fine of $180K after a worker was seriously burned when the angle grinder he was using sparked an explosion.

When a worker’s eight-metre fall through a skylight saw three PCBUs charged with gross negligence and recklessness, a court had to decide on the degree of negligence. Check out the court’s reasoning.

A court has found that simple measures could have prevented a man’s hand being crushed at work, but the employers’ WHS program was blind to the specific risk.