News & Events
Four workers injured in separate angle grinder incidents
Four separate angle grinder incidents injuring Territory workers have occurred within a five week period.
Work Health and Safety Advisory Council - 28 November 2022
The Work Health and Safety Advisory Council met on Monday, 28 November 2022.
The following items were discussed:
Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Advisory Council
The Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Advisory Council (the Council) met on
Thursday, 9 February 2023.
The following items were discussed:
Feedback sought on proposed workplace exposure standard for diesel particulate matter
Safe Work Australia is seeking further public comment on a proposed workplace exposure standard for diesel particulate matter.
Mining company charged over 2022 electric shock of worker
NT WorkSafe has charged a Darwin based mining company after one of its workers receiving an electric shock at a mine site in the Roper Gulf Region.
Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Advisory Council Communique November 2023
The Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Advisory Council (the Council) met on
Thursday, 3 November 2022.
The following items were discussed.
Civil construction company fined $425k over 2017 INPEX fatality
A Western Australian based civil construction company has been convicted and fined $425k over the death of a worker at the INPEX Onshore LNG Facility in 2017.
New laws and code of practice in place to protect workplace mental health
Effective 1 July 2023, the Northern Territory will implement new work health and safety regulations to address workplace psychosocial hazards.
Equipment hire company and director fined $1,140,000 for excavator death
A Darwin equipment hire company and its director have been fined a total of $1,140,000 today in the Darwin Local Court after Mr Dwayne Beaumont was killed loading an excavator in 2019. Both company and the director entered early guilty plea in court last Friday.
Media Statement - Withdrawal of industrial manslaughter charges
NT WorkSafe reminds all stakeholders that despite the withdrawal of industrial manslaughter charges in the Darwin Local Court yesterday, the prosecution of a Darwin Construction Company and its director for the death of a worker at Maningrida on 20 March 2020 remains active.