The CCTV footage lasts only seconds, but it captures the entire problem. External contractors are moving a coin blanking press weighing around three tonnes with a forklift when the press becomes unstable, falls from the forklift tines and narrowly misses a worker standing beside it. The worker escapes, so the event becomes a near miss rather than a fatality. That distinction matters enormously to the worker, but it does not make the underlying failure less serious. The footag

Editor’s note: This article provides general information about an NSW court decision and WHS governance. It is not legal advice. The legal question Can the sole director of a company prevent the production of corporate safety records by arguing that locating or producing them might incriminate the director personally? The NSW District Court considered that question in SafeWork NSW v Paul Whitmarsh (No. 2) [2025] NSWDC 86. The answer was no, at least where the subpoena is dire