On 13 August 2024, a company was sentenced in the Caloundra Magistrates Court for breaching section 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the Act’).

On 9 August 2024, the defendant, an operator of a mine, was sentenced in the Brisbane Industrial Magistrates Court for failing to ensure that the risk to coal mine workers at its mine was at an acceptable level.

On 8 August 2024, a worker was sentenced in the Brisbane Magistrates Court for breaching section 28 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the Act’), having failed to comply with his primary duty. The defendant was the owner and director of a crane hire company. He was employed as carne operator for the company at the relevant time.

On 8 August 2024, a restaurant company was sentenced in the Holland Park Magistrates Court for breaching section 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld) (‘the Act’), having failed to comply with its duty under s.21(2) of the Act to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that plant with which it had the management or control was without risks to the health and safety of any person.

On 2 August 2024, the Defendant company was sentenced in the Ipswich Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to a single breach of section 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld) (‘the Act’) for having failed to comply with their health and safety duty pursuant to section 19(1) of the Act.

On 29 July 2024, a worker was sentenced in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court for breaching section 28 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the Act’), having failed to comply with his primary duty. The defendant was employed as a concrete placing boom operator for a concrete pumping company at the relevant time.

On 25 July 2024, a company was sentenced in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court for breaching section 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the Act’) when a young worker, 17 years of age, was struck by a falling scaffold component whilst carrying out construction works at a domestic housing construction site on the Sunshine Coast. The young worker received fracture and laceration injury to his head/face.

On 25 July 2024, a company was sentenced in the Wynnum Magistrates Court for breaching section 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the Act’) when a worker received a spinal injury when, in the course of carrying our painting works for his employer, he fell approximately 3.4 metres from an unguarded balcony edge on a housing construction work site at Cannon Hill.

On 23 July 2024, a corporation pleaded guilty to a ‘Category 2’ offence contrary to s.32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the WHS Act’).

On 18 July 2024, a Sunshine Coast bus company was sentenced in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court for breaching section 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the Act’), having failed to comply with its primary health and safety duty pursuant to section 19(1) of the Act.