A $200,000 reminder that traffic management must physically control the risk On 17 Dec 25, D’Orsogna Limited was convicted and fined $200,000 after a reversing forklift struck a worker and pinned her legs to the ground at its Mickleham warehouse in Victoria. The prosecution is another reminder that instructions, eye contact, painted lines and high-visibility clothing do not physically prevent mobile plant from colliding with a person. The incident occurred in April 2023 while

A worker entered a demolition site with two feet and left without the toes and part of the forefoot of his left foot. The risk had been identified, the controls had been documented and the business had a Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS), but the controls described in that document were not operating when they were needed. Photo by Frederick Shaw on Unsplash On 02 Jul 26, the South Australian Employment Court convicted A. Haros Demolition Pty Ltd of a Category 2 offence under

Two Queensland prosecutions released in Jul 26 provide useful lessons about how organisations manage work outside their normal operations and how they respond when an existing control system has already failed. One involved an apprentice losing an eye during an unfamiliar ancillary task, while the other involved a dozer operator spending approximately eight hours trapped upside down beneath a coal stockpile. The industries, work and legislation were different, but the underly