A workplace front door tells you more than whether the site looks tidy. Access control, line marking, barriers and visible deterioration can be early signals of how consistently risk controls are being maintained and verified.

HMAS Voyager turned across the path of HMAS Melbourne during night flying exercises on 10 Feb 64. Eighty-two people died, leaving a lasting lesson about positive control, authority gradients and the danger of waiting for someone else to intervene.

A $90,000 asbestos prosecution shows why identifying ACM is only the start. From a supermarket cleaner’s room to Defence facilities covered in asbestos warning stickers, the real test is whether hazard information changes the work before somebody drills, cuts or demolishes the material.

A 20-year-old engineering student suffered serious spinal injuries after unstable ground gave way beneath her at the edge of a three-metre excavation. The excavation was already showing signs of failure, yet work continued without battering, fencing or effective edge protection.