A TROLLEY collection company has been fined for providing false information to a WorkSafe inspector following the death of an employee at Lakeside Joondalup Shopping Centre in 2007.
South Australia-headquartered Honest & Frank Pty Ltd was last week fined $12,000 in the Joondalup Magistrates Court for providing falsified training documents for a trolley collector killed in the shopping centre car park in September 2007.
Honest & Frank pleaded guilty to providing an inspector with false or misleading information. As part of its investigation, WorkSafe required that the employer produce training and induction records for the trolley collector.
WorkSafe WA commissioner Nina Lyhne said the document submitted bore a signature the company claimed was that of the deceased worker.
It was a copy, with the company claiming the original document could not be found.
Ms Lyhne said a handwriting analysis of the signature on the induction record and that on the man's passport concluded that the signature on the induction record was a photographic reproduction of the one on the passport.
