According to the union, workers’ safety could be at an all-time risk at the Water Corporation with the recent announcement made about a large percentage of its health and safety specialists likely facing termination within the next days.

An Australian employer realised too late how costly it can be when workplace safety is taken for granted and not implemented all the time.

The Australia steel fabrication business Bibra Lake was obliged to pay a whopping $75,000 over an incident that involved a contractor who was seriously injured when the scissor-lift on which he was working was struck by a crane.

Metwest Steel Pty Ltd eventually pleaded guilty for their inability to provide and oversee a safe workplace for the contractor who was carrying out work, and for that same failure, led to cause serious injury and harm to the employee of the contractor, and was therefore fined recently in the Fremantle Magistrates Court.

Workers in Gladstone, particularly those under high-risk jobs and assignments, have been caught carrying invalid licenses eventually after their course evaluations that did not meet the standards set by the respective workplace health and safety accreditation.

More and more questions have been raised as to the concrete roles Comcare should be having in terms of preventing alleged abuses occurring at the off-shore immigration detention centres. Social workers and psychiatrists have been pouring over revelations that officials are well aware of reports to signal that secrecy on this matter only increase the risks.

A company awaits its respective sentence after pleading guilty last month for a back-breaking fall that seriously broke an employee’s back at a Nishi work site.