Workplace safety
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Shell’s Prelude gas ship hit by safety, crewing and industrial problems
Shell is running its $US17 billion Prelude floating LNG plant with critical positions filled with crew who are not fully qualified and more than 200 safety alarms out of action ahead of industrial action due to start on Friday.
- by Peter Milne
EnergyAustralia to plead guilty to WorkSafe charges over worker’s death
The owner of Victoria’s Yallourn coal-fired power station will plead guilty to workplace safety charges after the death of 54-year-old unit controller Graeme Edwards.
- by Jackson Graham
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Tragedy
Devastated family to turn off life support for Perth boy injured in construction site fall
Joshua Field was playing inside an unsecured construction site with three other children on Monday night when he lost his balance and fell from a height. A loose metal beam then landed on his head.Â
- by Heather McNeill and Jerrie Demasi
Opinion
Workplace culture
Will Opera Australia be a lighthouse for change or perpetuate issues in the arts?
With limited job opportunities, and unstable work, the stage lends itself to being an extremely toxic work place.
- by Nathanael Cooper
How three firefighters’ hunch about their blood led to PFAS discovery
Mick Tisbury, Tony Martin and Alan McLean were perplexed by blood tests showing markedly different PFAS levels in their bloodstreams. It prompted them to come up with a theory.
- by Timna Jacks
Opinion
Opinion
Paul was told he has arthritis. His workplace injury was far more serious
His is just one of thousands of cases that involve ongoing pain, trauma and suffering within a broken workers’ compensation system.
- by Luke Hilakari
Exclusive
Heydon controversy
Morrison government behind secrecy clause in payout to Dyson Heydon’s alleged victims
Three of Heydon’s former associates received a payout from the Commonwealth for sexual harassment they suffered, but the government doesn’t want taxpayers to know how much they were paid.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Shell gets green light to restart giant Prelude LNG vessel off WA coast
Shell has got the all-clear to restart its $24 billion project three months after a fire triggered a cascade of failures that shut down systems vital to the welfare of nearly 300 crew.
- by Peter Milne
Drill rig worker’s skull crushed after colleague pressed wrong button
Gareth Leo Dodunski, 21, was killed in 2013 in remote central Queensland. Later this year, his death will be examined by a coroner.
- by Toby Crockford
Runaway iron ore train investigation points to BHP, not driver
BHP’s failures caused a 3-kilometre-long train to race driverless across the Pilbara until they had to stop it by derailing it, a regulator’s report has found.
- by Peter Milne