A councillor required to provide medical certificates despite collapsing in front of his colleagues in a Council meeting was not discriminated against, a tribunal has found.
The ACT plans to combine regulations for the management of dangerous goods and hazardous substances, with a new Bill introduced to Parliament this week.
A Victorian company that failed to notice significant faults in formwork it assessed on a building site has been fined $8,000 over its subsequent collapse.
The NSW IRC has cleared a company of any liability for the death of a mine worker in a roof collapse, but fined a supervisor $1,275, finding that a decision he made contrary to a well-known work procedure led to the fall.
An employer has successfully argued a worker's spinal condition was due to a pre-existing disease and not a work injury, enabling it to cease his compensation payments.
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An employer's failure to comply with 12 improvement notices issued after an OHS incident did not justify a substantially increased penalty, a NSW IRC full bench has ruled.
