As previously reported that a WHS Manager was fined by the Brisbane Magistrates Court over an incident in which another employee contracted Q fever while undertaking taxidermy work at the museum. The worker pleaded guilty on 29 March 2023 to breaching her duty as a worker under section 28 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (QLD).In January 2019, a taxidermist working in the museum’s taxidermy department contracted a chronic case of Q fever (a zoonotic disease caused by the spread of the bacteria from animals to humans) suffering a serious spinal abscess as a result. The court heard this was the first-known infection of Q fever in the taxidermy industry in Australia
Since March 2023 WHSQ has released its enforceable undertaking - which has raised more questions than it has answered.
Check out the enforceable undertaking here