Prosecution summaries
Defendant:
Bluestar Logistics Australia Pty Ltd
Trading Name:
Not applicable
Description of Breach(es)
Regulation: 4.53(2)
Breach(es):
Being an employer at a workplace, failed to ensure that persons were not lifted or suspended by plant at a workplace, namely a forklift truck, or its attachment, which was not plant specifically designed for the lifting or suspending of persons.
Background Details:
The defendant operated a freight transport company in Welshpool.
On 1 July 2002 a WorkSafe inspector undertook an inspection of the premises and whilst doing so observed an employee driving a forklift which had an empty pallet attached to the tynes and witness the driver stop the forklift next to a truck trailer, raise the tynes with the attached pallet approximately a metre above the bed of a truck trailer and then climb around the mast of the forklift and up onto the pallet.
The WorkSafe Inspector also observed another forklift driver, driving a forklift with a pallet attached to its tynes. The driver stopped the forklift next to a trailer truck whilst another employee then stepped onto the pallet and was lifted a metre above the bed of the trailer truck. This placed the employee approximately 2.5 metres above the ground.
Charge Details:
Convicted on Friday, September 12, 2003 at Perth Court of Petty Sessions.
Fine(s): $4500
Costs: $257.70
Charge Number: 29075/03