Darren Kavanagh

Bayswater company Resource Recovery Solutions has been fined $330,000 for a series of workplace safety breaches, the largest fine ever imposed in Western Australia.

Construction company Hanssen, earthworks contractor Screenwest and nickel miner First Quantum Minerals have each been fined in the past week over workplace safety breaches.

The main contractor for the state government’s $1.86 billion Forrestfield Airport Link project has been fined after an incident left one of its workers with permanent electrical burns.

Investigators have reassembled the roof of a building at Perth's Curtin University that collapsed in October, killing an apprentice construction worker and injuring two others.

Fremantle-based building company Gran Designs WA has been slapped with a $175,000 fine for failing to provide a safe workplace after the death of a worker in the South West in 2017.

The director of an Esperance shed company is expected to serve eight months behind bars over the death of an employee, making him the first person to be jailed in WA under workplace safety laws.

O’Connor-based Charman Roofing has become the second local business to be hit by the substantially larger penalties introduced for workplace safety breaches in Western Australia.

Managing safety in the workplace has never been more challenging and the risks never higher, as psychosocial hazards gain more attention.

Wormall Civil has been hit with a $95,000 fine after a young worker sustained serious injuries in a workplace incident in 2018.

A Welshpool-based metal fabrication company and its manager have been hit with $650,000 in fines over an incident which left an employee with serious burns.

A site supervisor has been hit with a $10,000 fine over an incident in which a young worker sustained serious injuries after being pinned by a steel plate and several limestone blocks in 2018.

Salini Australia has been hit with a $200,000 fine after an explosion at the Forrestfield Airport Link project in 2018 left an employee with a traumatic brain injury and facial fractures.

Industrial Construction Services has been hit with a $320,000 fine, almost five years after a teenage worker fell 12 metres to his death at the General Post Office building in Forrest Place.

Neerabup explorer Orbit Drilling and Bayswater engineering company B&Y Precision Engineering have been fined a combined $456,000 for a workplace death and injury by the state's workplace regulator.

The state government has been hit with a record $900,000 fine after “fundamental failings” and “glaring errors” led to a Department of Justice employee being attacked by a sniffer dog.

The state’s workplace safety watchdog has issued a stark warning to the construction industry after another builder was hit with a hefty fine over an employee fall at a work site.

A male worker has died at a salt refinery in North Coogee this morning.

WorkSafe will conduct an inquiry into the agricultural industry after a young man in the Great Southern became the 12th person to die working in the sector in the past year.

Miners, industry bodies and the state government have vowed to do what they can to stamp out sexual harassment amid a scathing report detailing the breadth and severity of the issue.

WorkSafe has highlighted a Bayswater company’s “long history of flouting workplace safety laws” after its managing director was fined over workplace safety charges.

Welshpool-based company VDM Engineering and its director have been hit with a $460,000 fine after a worker was crushed to death.

Queensland-based cargo handler Swissport has been hit with a $110,000 fine after a worker fell from a baggage cart at Perth Airport and was left with serious head injuries.

UPDATED: MACA has confirmed one of its employees was killed at Capricorn Metals' Karlawinda gold mine this morning, the second mining death to have occurred within a matter of days.

WorkSafe WA is investigating the death of a 50-year-old man in a work accident at a transport company in the Perth suburb of Bibra Lake.

The work safety regulator has confirmed it is investigating the death of a farmhand at a property near Collie, the fourth work-related fatality in less than a fortnight.

Two companies have been fined $800,000 and ordered to pay costs over the death of a worker at a Welshpool factory.

Safe Work Australia has reported a decline in workplace fatalities across the country, but highlighted road transport and farming as by far the most dangerous sectors to work in.

Perth-based PT Supplies Group has been fined over $240,000 after a teenage worker’s fingers were severed by forklift chains.

A Kununurra hydraulic repair company and its sole director will be forced to pay $435,000 over a forklift incident that left a teenage worker with life-threatening injuries.

WA-based companies Vivian Plumbing and Civil, and Badge Constructions have been fined a total of $720,000, after a worker drowned at a Mosman Park site.

BHP has confirmed a 51-year-old man was killed at the miner's iron ore operations in Port Hedland after being hit by a locomotive.

WorkSafe is prosecuting EMCO Building and Firm Construction over structural collapses resulting in worker injuries and has fined a bricklaying company $600,000.

A sheet metal manufacturer has been fined $300,000 over an incident that led to a teenage apprentice’s fingers being severed while using the company's machinery.

The WorkSafe commissioner has supported majority of the recommendations derived from the injury into the agriculture industry which has been described as the “most deadly” sector.

A high-profile workplace fatality that spurred the introduction of industrial manslaughter laws in Western Australia has reached its conclusion in the Magistrates Court six years after the tragic event.

Collapsed builder Firm Construction has been fined $600,000 over serious injuries suffered by two workers during the building collapse at the Hotel Rottnest redevelopment in 2020.

Shark Bay seashell miner L’Haridon Bight Mining has been ordered to pay an increased $48,000 fine after WorkSafe successfully appealed the original sentence over a workplace injury.

A sole trader has been fined more than $47,000 after an employee suffered serious injuries while working at a Great Southern mechanical workshop.

Darren Kavanagh will step down as WorkSafe Commissioner, three months earlier than his five-year term was due to end.