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A coronial inquiry into the deaths of two train drivers has examined the phenomenon of "inattentional blindness", where a person doesn't notice a fully-visible but unexpected hazard because their attention is engaged by another task.

A court has examined the meaning of obvious risk, in awarding nearly $320,000 in damages to a worker who tripped on a large metal box.

A court has found that a man's post-traumatic stress disorder arose from a workplace electric shock, but awarded him just a fraction of his $330,000 damages claim.

A worker who was struck in the head by a falling object has been awarded $327,000 in damages, after a court found her brain injury prevented her from seeking her dream job.

The Queensland Coroner has, in an inquest into a worker's death, called for employers to treat workers as casualties as soon as they're affected by heat, criticised "buddy" systems, and said he was "startled" to discover that there was no construction-industry standard relating to high temperatures.

A union has been denied a declaration that proposed changes to a major workplace's drug testing regime were defeated in a ballot, with a Queensland judge finding that the 257 workers who neglected to vote on the changes couldn't be regarded as disagreeing with them.

A worker has been refused $290,000 in damages for a back injury, but a supreme court judge found her employer did negligently expose her and others to a building's unsafe access point.

A court has upheld fatality-related OHS charges against an employer and three company officers, including an executive whose tenure ended four months before the fatality occurred.

An employer has been refused permission to amend its fatigue management procedures to reduce the number of rest breaks per shift, because it failed to obtain unanimous agreement from a cross-section of workers.

An employer has been ordered to pay damages to a worker who injured his back while trying to keep up with an unreasonably fast production line.