An employer that implemented stringent PPE requirements for a toxic substance, but then downgraded them, has been convicted over two exposure incidents, with a court finding its breaches would have attracted a $350,000 fine if it hadn't pleaded guilty.
A commission has upheld a worker's claim she suffered a psychological injury from being bullied by her supervisor, condemning the employer for rejecting her compensation bid with no legal or medical basis.
A commission has upheld a decision to deny compensation to a worker who suffered an aggravation of her psychiatric illness from an interaction with her supervisor, ruling the supervisor's imperfect actions were reasonable enough under injury laws.
A casual worker was unfairly dismissed for not complying with fatigue management laws and policies, a commission has ruled, finding his supervisors encouraged his alleged non-compliance, and rejecting his employer's claim the dismissal was not related to his coinciding request for a permanent role.
A PCBU and its director have been convicted over a worker's 6.5-metre fall onto a concrete floor, with a judge finding they were obligated to provide personnel with external height safety training, but failed to do so.
A commission president has rejected an appeal from Bunnings Group Ltd, upholding the finding that it unreasonably pressured a worker to take a transfer and aggravated her psychological conditions following the death of her mother and cousin.
An engineering company and its director have been fined a total of $460,000 after the death of a worker crushed by a one-tonne pipe, due to safety failings known to the director.
A "lack of supervisory control" and the repeated failure to detect and report faults "represented an opportunity lost" to prevent a worker's death from being crushed on a mobile elevated work platform (MEWP), a coronial inquiry has found.
