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Month: October 2015
Performance Management Crucial for Dealing with Underperforming Employees
Performance management makes perfect business sense where you have an employee who would clearly benefit from some guidance and management. However, is it really that important where the employee’s under-performance has been ongoing and is unlikely to improve? This is a reasonable question that businesses may ask, particularly in today’s financial climate. Performance management takes Read More …
Engineering Company Fined Over Workers Death
The 48 year old fitter and machinist was performing maintenance work on a crane when it fell over, pinning him between the crane and the arm of another crane. The incident occurred at a Western Sydney site where the company supplied, maintained and serviced cranes used by the Royal Australian Navy. At the time of Read More …
Company Fined $5,000 for Injury to Apprentice
A flooring installer has been fined $5000 after a labour hire apprentice suffered serious cuts to his hand while using an unguarded saw. The company pleaded to guilty to failing to provide a safe work environment for a labour hire worker. The company was constructing a floating timber floor at a residential dwelling in Ascot. The Read More …
Demolition Company Fined $120,000 After Worker’s Skull Pierced by Steel Bar
A Sydney demolition company has been fined $120,000 over an incident in 2013 where a worker’s skull was pierced by steel bar that flew into the cabin of the excavator he was operating. The Company was found guilty in the District Court after being charged with a breach of the Work Health and Safety Act Read More …