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Bradken Resources Limited was fined in the Melbourne County Court July 2019 after being found guilty by a Wangaratta County Court jury of failing to provide and maintain safe plant following a 10 day trial. Although there had been no prior incidents of a casting falling back onto the windscreen of a skid steer loader, […]

Often the hotel industry is peppered with students and part time staff, whom for many it is there first job.  It is an industry that traditionally has a high turnover of staff.  The difficulty for many Chief Fire Wardens is the requirement to “train” staff in general evacuation training within two days of commencement.  Many […]

This photo was taken on the third floor of a Melbourne hotel.  The electricians regularly serviced the emergency exit light and it was working, but they did not see anything wrong with this exit light. Hotel maintenance regularly inspected the hotel but they did not see any issue. Management when told of the issue brushed […]

There are many examples of data security breaches in hotel chains. One hotel chain, ‘The Marriotts’ reservation system was hacked with an estimated 500Million reservation information stolen.  This figure was later reduced to 383Million once the investigation had completed. ‘Those stolen records potentially include; unencrypted names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers, Starwood […]

Another Cyber Attack against Medical Institutes, has my information been sold to criminals? Hackers break into two firms hosting medical care databases with 425,000 records and 200,000 payment details![1] Another medical breach last month with hackers making off with hundreds of thousands of banking details.  This happened over eight months before it was discovered!  There […]