The Productivity Commission recommends national frameworks for OHS and workers' compensation, but says common law access and journey claims should be dropped.
The Productivity Commission's interim report on national OHS and worker's compensation frameworks covers a wide range of important topics. Here, OHS Alert delivers subscribers a concise round-up of the Commission's key recommendations.
Submissions to Victoria's review of self-insurance arrangements call for a user-pays basis for premium contributions; greater monitoring of self-insurers; more transparency in calculating contributions; and a pooled terrorism insurance fund.
The transport and storage industry had the highest claims incidence and frequency rates in 2001-02, prompting NOHSC to make it a key focus area for the current financial year.
NSW IR Minister, John Della Bosca, today launched a new education program for general practitioners that contains the latest advice on the treatment of low back pain.
Two new studies of musculoskeletal disorders warn employers to limit workers' repetitive activities and minimise pushing and pulling tasks in order to reduce the incidence of strains.
In an important ruling on employers' duty of care to the public, the High Court has overturned a finding that a cinema was negligent in failing to provide signs notifying patrons of its retractable seats.
A host employer that equipped a worker with a step ladder as a work platform was 75 per cent liable for his subsequent injuries, the NSW Supreme Court has found.
A Bill introduced to Victoria's Parliament will remove the uncertainties resulting from recent court cases and restore common law rights to injured workers whose permanent impairment is below the 10 per cent threshold.
