19/12/2011
An international delivery company which failed to address an improvement notice issued by WorkSafe to help improve safety conditions for its workers has been fined $15,000. FedEx Australia has appeared at the Werribee Magistrates’ Court, pleading guilty to failing to provide a safe workplace and failing to comply with an improvement notice.
WorkSafe inspectors issued an improvement notice at the company’s Derrimut site in July 2009 after they noticed workers were unloading and loading packages from steel cages in an awkward position that exposed them to risk of musculoskeletal injuries, the court was told. The company had four months to comply with the notice, but when WorkSafe returned to the site in December 2009, they found the notice had not been complied with and work was being carried out in the exact same way.