Officer due diligence is one of the more misunderstood parts of Australian WHS law, which is impressive given safety legislation already contains enough plain English avoidance to power a small Canberra department. At its core, due diligence means an officer must take reasonable, active and informed steps to ensure the organisation complies with its health and safety duties. It is not the same as doing every safety task personally, and it is not satisfied by hiring a safety m

A worker is dead, a company has been fined $472,500, and another Australian prosecution has landed squarely on the same recurring issue seen across heavy industry for decades, hazardous plant interacting with inadequate systems of work. This time it involved a green waste grinder in New South Wales. The underlying failures were neither novel nor technically complex. That is what makes these incidents so frustrating from a safety perspective. According to SafeWork NSW, Northwe

On the night of 03 Feb 26, a single-vehicle crash on Magpie Creek Road at Condowie, east of Snowtown in regional South Australia, resulted in the death of a 48-year-old local man. Emergency services were called shortly after 2300h, with the sole occupant pronounced deceased at the scene. Major Crash investigators from South Australia Police have since commenced a formal investigation and are seeking information from the public. Rural and regional roads come with inherent risk