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.

In November 2022 the Defendant company was found not-guilty after a trial in the Beenleigh Magistrates Court for an offence under section 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld) (‘the Act’), for failing to comply with its duty under section 19(1) of the Act to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers engaged by the said Defendant while the workers were at work in the business or undertaking.

On 16 July 2024, a company was sentenced in the Ipswich Magistrates Court for breaching section 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the Act’) when a 16 year-old worker received an amputation injury down to the first knuckle of his left hand forefinger whilst carrying out cleaning duties on an inadequately guarded food processing machine.

On 10 July, a crane supervisor pleaded guilty to a ‘Category 2’ offence contrary to s.32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the WHS Act’).

On 8 July 2024, a company was sentenced in the Beenleigh 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.