No published Australian national cost for unregistered, uninspected or wrong-category plant in construction

What it is. None - national statistics count plant incidents and audit findings but give no fine, stop-work cost or cost per incident for plant.

Sample. Search terms used: WHS prosecutions average fine Safe Work Australia; comparative performance monitoring fines per conviction; Federal Safety Commissioner annual data accreditation suspended revoked; Key WHS statistics median compensation construction; mobile plant crane incident cost per incident; plant registration prestart fine. A frequency exists, but it is not a cost: mobile plant was the most frequent high-risk hazard in incidents reported to the Federal Safety Commissioner in 2015-2019 (548 of 1,737) and drew 1,954 of 4,447 high-risk corrective action reports (44%) in 2017-2019.

What it is not. Recorded as none on purpose. Plant is well counted in Australian national data and not priced. A crane or mobile plant incident has fines and compensation costs, but none of the national sources read states one for plant.

Where it came from

• Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner (2020), FSC Data: Mobile Plant and Scaffolding
  The whole data sheet: high-risk hazard incidents 2015-2019 and corrective action reports 2017-2019 · source record

Considered and set aside

• Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner: 2024 audit findings by criterion with issue rates; counts only, no penalty or cost for plant.
• Safe Work Australia: National average fine AU$116,979 per prosecution across all breaches; no plant breakdown.
• Safe Work Australia: No field for the kind of failure, so plant-registration or prestart fines cannot be isolated without coding free text.
• Safe Work Australia: 5,700 prohibition notices across Australia in 2021-22, a stop-work count with no cost and no plant split.
• Safe Work Australia: Construction median compensation AU$18,500 per serious claim covers every injury cause, not plant incidents.
• Safe Work Australia: Regulation 246 requires registration of listed plant; the penalty is a tier with no dollar amount in the model.
• Ehsan Gharaie (RMIT University), The Conversation: Study of 81 construction plant deaths (trucks and excavators most frequent, 15 crane deaths); an author summary of a causes study; the paper itself is paywalled and only its abstract was read, which holds no cost. The thinnest entry here.
• RMIT University for SafeWork NSW: New South Wales crane incident study; keyword scan of the full text found no incident cost or fine amount.

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