A manager was recently issued a $65,000 fine for his hand in the death of a 16-year regional apprentice. The case reminds us of the duty businesses and senior officers hold to minimise risks to their workers' health and safety through proactive risk management, appropriate supervision and investment in the correct plant and equipment.
In the education and care economy where employees are responsible for the wellbeing of vulnerable individuals, workplace investigations are essential tools for making findings of fact and assessing and addressing risk, yet they can bring unintended consequences.
An application seeking to amend a notice of appeal to include the source of the appeal right will be dismissed as the Court found it not necessary to be included.
A local government opposes an application to install, erect, and display an electronic advertising device because proposed minimum dwell times between different advertisements may distract drivers.
The grant of a statutory right of user in the form of an easement is set aside because the easement was not sufficiently described so as to enliven the Court's jurisdiction.
A determination of conditions to be imposed on a development approval finds that a condition imposing a levy for maintenance works associated with a haulage route, which is non-trunk infrastructure, is unlawful, and that conditions requiring a maintenance regime to be undertaken by the applicant is reasonable.
