摘要 : A COURT case in which a South Australian company was convicted and fined over the design of a piece of agricultural equipment highlights the potential liability of all parties over workplace safety. The company, Viticulture Techno... 展开 A COURT case in which a South Australian company was convicted and fined over the design of a piece of agricultural equipment highlights the potential liability of all parties over workplace safety. The company, Viticulture Technologies, was fined 20,000 dollars with 9000 dollars costs in the Magistrate's Court at Albany in Western Australia last month after being found guilty in May of failing to ensure that the design of a machine was safe for use in a workplace. WorkSafe WA said the case followed an accident in which a worker at Crystal Brook Vineyards in southern WA became a quadriplegic after falling from a grape-picking machine while attempting to clear a blockage in the mechanism. 收起