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MAFS Hit With SafeWork Notices Over Alleged ‘Violence & Aggression’ & ‘Non-Consensual Touching’

One bride alleged she was filmed in the shower without consent, while a groom was reportedly accused of non-consensual touching.

Pedestrian.tv · May 28

Legal team to tackle workplace manslaughter

A legal team has been set up to bring people and businesses to justice for workplace deaths under some of Australia's toughest industrial manslaughter laws..

AAP · Oct 5, 2025

'It can kill': SafeWork inspectors target scaffold safety on Hunter construction sites

Hunter construction sites targeted in scaffold safety crackdown.

Newcastle Herald · Oct 25, 2024

‘De facto wages cap by stealth’: NSW Greens seek to change Labor’s workplace bill

New law would restore sweeping powers to the Industrial Relations Commission, including giving it the ability to act like a court

The Guardian - AU · Nov 27, 2023

State stonewalls silica ban as national talks drag on

Pressure is mounting for a national ban on the use of engineered stone as one state sets a deadline on talks and threatens to go it alone.

AAP · Nov 8, 2023

Industrial manslaughter laws to target corporations

NSW will join other jurisdictions in introducing industrial manslaughter laws making corporations more liable for workplace deaths.

AAP · Oct 18, 2023

Food delivery firm let poorly trained riders on streets

A food delivery service operating in four cities has been fined for not properly training hundreds of riders, leading to a warning for other app-based firms.

AAP · Oct 7, 2023

Surprise visits and crackdowns: SafeWork to increase surveillance in Hunter

'Bosses have an obligation to people's lives.'

Newcastle Herald · Jul 19, 2023

Construction crackdown in Hunter amid safety concerns: minister

The workplace safety minister will meet with construction site inspectors in Newcastle today.

Newcastle Herald · Jul 18, 2023

Record fine issued over worker's woodchipper death

A record $2 million fine has been issued to a tree lopping company over the death of a worker who was killed while using a woodchipping machine in Sydney.

AAP · Jul 17, 2023