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

The recent District Court outcome in NSW, where $250,000 in combined fines were ordered against a skydiving operator and its sole director following a double fatality, is not a “high-risk industry” curiosity. It is a straight application of duty, risk, and control failure. The hazard was a modified aircraft step that introduced a snag point. The failure was allowing that condition to exist without engineering assurance, inspection, or an effective control set. The consequence

WorkSafe ACT’s enforcement and psychosocial safety focus are evolving rapidly and are likely to shape inspector expectations and compliance obligations across ACT workplaces. WorkSafe ACT has recently secured substantial penalties in multiple safety prosecutions and is embedding the national Managing Psychosocial Hazards Code into local practice. Inspectors are increasingly looking beyond physical hazards and will expect well‑organised documentation across asbestos, planned r