The obligations of an employer when it comes to the safety and health of his workers will justify reasonable and lawful directions, which can further the different objectives regarding occupational safety and health.
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After his bicycle allegedly got stuck to a track in the dockside, a father-of-two died due to drowning after plunging into the historic harbour.
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A fatality occurred at Fortescue’s Creek mine when a young labourer died in a work related incident. It is the second occurrence in four months’ that a worker was killed at the same mining site in Western Australia being operated by Fortescue Metals Group.
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Beyond Ordinary Part 4: Breaching the Defences - Active Failures and Latent Conditions
So if we see the active failures as outcomes of some underlying cause, then we can start to say, well what are these underlying causes. And these underlying causes are generally called Latent Conditions, which may result from a faulty design or management decision that may lie dormant for a long time, until such time as a correct mix of circumstances lines up and we have an accident.
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So your defences, and this is consistent with most organisations, serve one or more of the following functions:
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