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The Palaszczuk Government has announced the appointment of Aaron Guilfoyle as Queensland’s first independent Work Health and Safety Prosecutor. Mr. Guilfoyle, a  Former Assistant Director for the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP), has been appointed to a five-year term, starting in the role this week. Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace said Mr. Guilfoyle would Continue Reading

A pilot has died in a helicopter crash in South Australia’s far north. Police and emergency services were called to a mine site approximately 60 kilometers east of Woomera shortly before 11am on Wednesday following reports of a helicopter crash. The pilot and sole occupant, a 45-year-old Queensland man, died at the scene. In a Continue Reading

A Ballarat swim school has been fined $ 150,000 for a diving incident that left a 12-year-old girl a quadriplegic in November 2016. The owners of the swim school pleaded guilty in the Ballarat County Court to failing to ensure the girl was not exposed to risks. The court heard that the 12-year-old girl was Continue Reading

A farm worker has been killed in a tractor incident in North Queensland. The man in his 30s was driving a tractor on a farm in Gumlu when he fell off the vehicle and was run over. Paramedics were called to the scene, but the man had already died. Work Place Health and Safety are Continue Reading

Two companies have been fined a total of $ 176,000 following an incident that broke a worker’s jaw at the Cloudbreak iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The man was conducting maintenance work on the mine’s conveyor belt system when he was struck in the face by a hook attached to Continue Reading