Deliberately venting gas to atmosphere as a work method is not a grey area, not a clever workaround, and not a risk trade off. It is a conscious decision to defeat controls, and regulators will treat it as exactly that, deliberate exposure to serious risk. This is a sharp reminder that safety prosecutions are no longer confined to what systems failed, they are increasingly focused on who chose to ignore them, and why. What happened In this matter, a company and an individual

On 23 Jan 26, the Victorian Coroner handed down findings into the death of an older man who was fatally trapped when a ride-on mower rolled down an embankment at Glenmaggie. It was not a freak event. It was not a mechanical failure. It was the predictable outcome of a task carried out near a slope, on a machine without roll-over protection, in circumstances that many people would describe as routine. This is the uncomfortable truth about plant risk. Familiarity dulls judg

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On 13 October 2021, tragedy struck at the Sydney Indoor Climbing Gym when a recreational climber fell approximately 12 metres after an...