THE SUPREME Court has upheld an appeal by a diver who was ordered to pay a total of $150,000 after being found guilty of 16 counts of dishonestly obtaining WorkCover SA income maintenance payments.
05/08/2008
APACHE Energy had to evacuate staff from Varanus Island via helicopter after an explosion occurred at the gas facility at 1:40pm on 3 June 2008.
04/06/2008
THE SOUTH Australian Supreme Court has dismissed a joint appeal lodged by Santos and Diemould Tooling Services, in a court victory touted by SafeWork SA as a major clear-up of legislative technicality.
21/07/2008
DANDENONG-based metal fabrication business A Bending Company has had its health and safety fine tripled after an appeal in court.
13/05/2010
THE Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has continued the fight to increase the duty of care imposed on employers in the harmonised national occupational health and safety laws.
08/08/2008
BUILDER Svein Tobiassen has been fined $35,000 for the death of a worker, after WorkSafe WA successfully appealed against an earlier dismissal of the court case.
20/05/2008
FLUOR Australia has been successfully sued by a rail maintenance supervisor for indirect racial discrimination after he was downgraded over concerns his writing skills would compromise safety.
19/11/2008
CAROMA Industries has been fined in the SA Industrial Relations Court after a worker was burned by a heat bag sealer in September 2006.
10/08/2009
OHS researcher Rwth Stuckey says road deaths are the number one cause of traumatic work fatalities, and these are ignored because they could not be measured.
15/04/2010