MELBOURNE-based Omni Bedding has been fined $360,000 after an employee’s hair was caught in machinery and torn off in an April 2007 incident.
THE DEPARTMENT of Education will stand trial for five workplace health and safety charges, after a contested committal hearing concluded.
WORKSAFE Victoria says it is investigating an incident at a Traralgon sawmill where a man lost his arm on the morning of 19 August 2008.
LAKESIDE Packaging has been convicted and fined $100,000 as a result of a prosecution over their treatment of two Chinese workers on Section 457 visas.
A LABOUR hire company has been fined $27,500 after worker’s fingers were crushed in an unguarded machine.
WORKPLACE Safety Authorities across Australia have launched a safety campaign targeted at unguarded machines in the manufacturing sector.
ADELAIDE Industrial Labour Service was fined $9000 over injuries sustained by an 18-year-old employee when his hands were trapped in a pipe-bending machine.
Workplace safety authorities across Australia have launched a national safety campaign in a bid to improve machine guarding in the manufacturing industry.
A Perth-based rock candy manufacturer has pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a safe workplace, after a worker’s finger was severely injured in an unguarded machine.
CHALLENGE Australian Dairy has pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a safe work place. It was fined $20 000 for a 2005 incident when a worker lost part of his finger.