WorkSafe

WorkSafe has commenced prosecution action against a mining maintenance company over the death of a worker at South Boulder in December 2023.

Dalmain Enterprises Pty Ltd – trading as ATS Mining Maintenance – has been charged with failing to provide and maintain a safe working environment and, by that failure, causing the death of a worker.

In December 2023, a worker who was employed as a heavy diesel mechanic was instructed to remove the front axle from a truck, requiring the truck to be jacked off the ground.

• Proposed amendments arise from a recent legislation review
• The State Government is committed to the highest safety standards
• Public submissions are open until 5pm on 27 February 2026

The Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety is inviting public submissions on proposed amendments to Western Australia’s dangerous goods safety laws.

Our offices will be closed from Wednesday 24 December 2025 and will reopen for business on Monday 5 January 2026.
For urgent queries please see our after hours and emergency contacts.

A sole trader has been fined $15,000 (and ordered to pay more than $2600 in costs) for removing asbestos when he did not have an asbestos removal licence.

Justin Collins pleaded guilty to three counts of carrying out work for which he was not authorised according to regulations and was given a global fine for all three offences in the Perth Magistrates Court on November 21.

A construction company has been fined $350,000 (and ordered to pay more than $6600 in costs) over the death of a 19-year-old worker in 2021.

M Construction (WA) Pty Ltd pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a safe work environment and was fined in the Perth Magistrates Court on November 21.

In November 2021, an employee of PAWS Construction and Maintenance Pty Ltd died after suffering a traumatic head injury when he was struck by a sea container drawbridge ramp weighing around 250kg. At the time he was assisting his supervisor to lower the ramp.

Certain imported coloured sand products have been found to contain very low levels of naturally occurring asbestos. The sand products appear to have been mined and quarried overseas from quartz products that contain naturally occurring forms of asbestos. Australian Border Force (ABF) continues to make enquiries to confirm details of the importer(s) and supplier(s) involved.

The coloured sands are intended for use as an educational aid and for arts and crafts.

A Welshpool drill services company has been fined $897,500 (and ordered to pay almost $6500 in costs) over the death of a worker in 2023.

Airdrill Pty Ltd pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a safe workplace and was fined in the Perth Magistrates Court on October 22.

The company provides services relating to drill rigs, including design, manufacture and commissioning of new rigs and the maintenance, servicing and refurbishment of existing drill rigs.

WorkSafe has issued a reminder to have good risk management procedures in place on farms, particularly during the current harvest.

So far this financial year, eight Western Australian workers have lost their lives in work-related incidents, three of these in the agriculture sector.

Two workers lost their lives last week on farms in the Wheatbelt and Great Southern, and earlier in the financial year a worker lost his life at an agricultural farming site in Jarrahdale.

A total ban on the manufacture, import, and use of all forms of asbestos came into effect in Western Australia in December 2003.

WorkSafe have been working with impacted manufacturers and businesses regarding the detection of asbestos-containing fire-rated board (FRB) following information provided by the Australian Border Force. The FRB product was imported into Australia from China and on-sold to Western Australian (and other state/territory) manufacturers.

A Welshpool industrial spray painting and sandblasting company has been dealt the biggest ever fine under WA’s workplace safety and health laws over the death of a 16-year-old worker in 2023.

RPC Surface Treatment Pty Ltd pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to ensure the health and safety of a worker and was issued a global fine in the Perth Magistrates Court yesterday.

In June 2023, a labourer who assisted with spray painting and sandblasting was killed when a steel beam weighing approximately 425kg suspended from an overhead monorail system fell on his chest.