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The Safe Side | Issue 43
28/02/2023
Welcome to the first issue of The Safe Side for 2023! We start 2023 by reporting on a school trip to the Poor Knights Islands that almost ended in tragedy and remind schools about the importance of assessing and controlling on-water risks when students undertake activities outside the classroom. We also look at the sentencings of three companies after recent health and safety prosecutions. Two Australian companies were given substantial fines following the deaths of workers while unloading stone slabs from containers, while a New Zealand forestry servicing company was ordered to pay over $500,000 after a remote field worker died when working on a logging harvesting machine.
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The Safe Side | Issue 42
19/12/2022
In the last issue of The Safe Side for 2022, we report on six recent sentencings - three under the Health and Safety at Work Act (HASWA) and three under the Fair Trading Act. Two of the HASWA cases involved hazardous machinery and sadly, one resulted in a fatality. The other HASWA prosecution was brought after a subcontracted painter fell 4.7m from a roof and died as a result of his injuries. The Fair Trading Act prosecutions were taken by the Commerce Commission and the convictions resulted in total combined fines of more than $1.42 million for the three companies involved.
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The Safe Side | Issue 41
29/11/2022
In this issue, we report on research that found that just under one in five work related fatalities between 2005 and 2014 were linked to weather-related factors. Notably, this proportion may increase in the future as extreme weather becomes more likely due to climate change. We also cover an enforceable undertaking which will see a waste services company spend almost $1 million on health and safety initiatives and reparations. In addition, we briefly cover the filing of a charge in Victoria, Australia for workplace manslaughter which could see a director imprisoned for up to 25 years if convicted.
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