Prosecution Details
Defendant | Bluestar Logistics Australia Pty Ltd |
Regulation | 4.53(2) |
Offence Date | Monday, 1 July 2002 |
Description of 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. |
Outcome Summary | convicted |
Conviction Date | 12 Sep 2003 |
Court | Perth Court of Petty Sessions |
Fine | $4,500 |
Costs | $257.70 |
Charge Number | 29075/03 |