Just two weeks after expressing her concern and dismay at the number of fall-from-height cases coming before her court, a judge has handed down another $800,000 pre-discount fine in a case where "glaringly" obvious risks were ignored.
An employer has been deemed liable for the psychological injury sustained by a worker who was attacked, most likely by the partner of a "high risk" client, on her way to work. A judge found the employer failed to act on its knowledge of the immediate risk the partner posed to the worker.
A PCBU that failed to properly supervise its workers has been fined $300,000, after an unqualified labourer, who had been allocated groundwork, fell to his death from a height of nearly three metres.
A PCBU has been fined $375,000 after an 18-year-old apprentice, with just days of experience, was left unsupervised in a workshop and killed while working on a truck.
A PCBU fined $170,000 for endangering "other persons", by allowing an unqualified labour-hire worker to perform high-risk cranage work, has lost its appeal against its conviction, with a bench rejecting is claim the task was outside the scope of its undertaking.
A commission has overturned a decision to deny compensation to a worker exposed to p-rnographic material and abusive outbursts from her manager, rejecting a regulator's claims that the two had a civil relationship and the worker's psychiatric injury arose from reasonable management action.
A PCBU and its director were on notice from a 2014 regulatory visit and prohibition notice of their WHS duty to properly guard machinery, a tribunal has ruled in convicting and fining them over a worker's 2020 degloving injury.
A tribunal has found an interpreter suffered a compensable psychological injury from her perception of being bullied while deployed to Nauru, finding a regulator's reasonable-management-action defence failed through its inability to prove such action occurred.
Through the development of an evidence-based screening tool, and an analysis of complaints made to a WHS regulator, researchers have found the risk of workplace bullying increases through ineffective people management by supervisors, across nine major risk areas.
