Farm safety videos and podcasts
Podcasts
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Machining and heavy metal fabrication business fined $250,000 over serious injuries to worker
A Balcatta machining and heavy metal fabrication business has been fined $250,000 (and ordered to pay $5990 in costs) over a 2021 incident that resulted in serious injury to a worker.
Twoex Pty Ltd – trading as West City Engineering – pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a safe work environment and, by that failure, causing serious harm to an employee, and was fined in the Perth Magistrates Court yesterday.
High risk work licence
A high risk work licence (HRWL) is required when carrying out certain high risk work including operating cranes, boilers, forklifts, hoists, reach stackers, reciprocating steam engines, rigging, scaffolding and turbines.
A HRWL is recognised in all states and territories of Australia, enabling the holder to perform high risk work under consistent standards.
The requirements to hold a HRWL do not apply if you are:
Workplace assessments
A workplace assessment should be conducted and reviewed regularly to identify any hazards in the workplace. This is so that control measures can be implemented to eliminate or minimise potential risks. Risk management can help you to respond to change and improve your business by preventing injuries and illness in the workplace, as well as improving the health and wellbeing of your workers and increasing productivity.
Hazards
A hazard is something in the workplace that can cause harm to people. Common types of workplace hazards include:
Workers
Workers have health and safety obligations and play an important role in helping to keep a workplace healthy and safe.
A worker is any person who carries out work for a business, which can include:
Employers and PCBUs
Everyone has a duty to take reasonable care for their own health and safety and for others in the workplace, especially the employer, who are also known as person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU).
Training and orientating workers
Safety induction
Employers, also known as a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) must give their workers the information, tools, training and instructions they need to do their jobs safely. This should be easy to understand and cover topics including:
Engineering company fined $567,000 over worker death
An engineering company has been fined $567,000 (and ordered to pay $28,695 in costs) over the 2019 death of a worker at its Bassendean workshop.
Hofmann Engineering Pty Ltd pleaded guilty under the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984 to failing to provide and maintain a safe workplace and, by that failure, causing the death of a worker and was fined in the Perth Magistrates Court yesterday.
Mining contractor fined after worker seriously injured by exploding tyre
K19 Mining Pty Ltd has been fined $350,000 plus costs of $4,568.70 after a worker suffered nerve damage and hearing loss when knocked unconscious by a road-train tyre that exploded while being reinflated.
The company pleaded guilty in the South Hedland Magistrates Court on 21 November 2024 to failing to ensure the safety of a worker and by that contravention causing serious harm under the Work Health and Safety Act 2020.
Underground supervisor's certificate: Templates
Supporting documentation and templates
- Statement of experience: Underground supervisor (with qualifications) – two years employment on an underground mine site: Template
- Statement of experience: Underground supervisor (without qualifications) – five years employment on an underground mine site: Template
- Statement of experience: Underground supervisor – 84 shifts working in mine ventilation, mine planning or mine emergency management at an underground non-coal mine: Template
- Statement of experience: Underground supervisor – 42 shifts installing ground sup