On 8 April 2024, a company and two of its directors were sentenced in the Southport Magistrates Court for breaching section 40C of the Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld) (‘the Act’). The company failed to comply with its primary health and safety duty to ensure the health and safety of persons was not put at risk from its business or undertaking. The directors failed to exercise due diligence to ensure the company complied with its duty.

On 4 April 2024, a defendant pleaded guilty to a ‘Category 3’ offence contrary to s.33 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the WHS Act’).

On 21 March 2024, a timber company was sentenced in the Brisbane 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.

On 20 March 2024, the defendant company was sentenced in the Cleveland Magistrates Court for failing to comply with an electrical safety duty, and in doing so, exposing an individual to a risk of death or serious injury.

On 15 March 2024, a company was sentenced in the Brisbane Magistrates Court in relation to two charges 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 (both under section 19(1) and under section 19(2)).

On 15 March 2024, a metal fabrication company was sentenced in the Brisbane Magistrates Court for breaching section 19 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the Act’), having failed to comply with its primary health and safety duty.

On 11 March 2024, a man was sentenced for two offences in the Southport Magistrates Court for failing to have the authority of the Chief Inspector to possess explosives pursuant to section 34(1) of the Explosives Act 1999 (‘the Act’) and using fireworks in a fireworks display in contravention of section 165 of the Explosives Regulation 2017 (‘the Regulation’).

On 6 March 2024, a licenced painter, Navid Rezai, and his company, Brisbane Top Painting Pty Ltd, were found guilty of three charges following a trial in the Redcliffe Magistrates Court for breaching section 33 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the Act’). It was found that the director of the company, Mr Rezai, failed in his duty under section 27(1) of the Act, to exercise due diligence in ensuring that Brisbane Top Painting Pty Ltd complied with their health and safety duties pursuant to section 19(1) and 19(2) of the Act.

On 1 March 2024, a worker was sentenced in the Pine Rivers Magistrates Court for breaching section 190 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the Act’). The defendant pleaded guilty to intimidating inspectors at a commercial construction site at Brendale on 29 May 2023.

On 29 February 2024, a Tinana pineapple farm was found guilty after trial and sentenced in the Maryborough Magistrates Court for breaching section 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld) (‘the Act’), having failed to comply with its primary health and safety duty. The two Directors were charged alongside the company and were found guilty after trial and sentenced for their failure to comply with the duty owed as an officer and to exercise due diligence.