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A regulator's WHS complaint against a transport employer fails the High Court's Kirk test and is invalid, a judge has found.

A worker has been denied damages for an injury caused by kneeling down to access a power point, after a court rejected her claim her employer was negligent in failing to ensure all equipment was within reach.

An employer's failure to ensure its safety documents covered all of its operations, and not just its "main game", contributed to a young worker's death, a coroner has found.

A worker who was assaulted at a work Christmas party has been denied damages on appeal, after a court confirmed a duty holder couldn't have foreseen that a group of boisterous drinkers would become violent.

Two co-workers whose romantic relationship was allegedly depicted in a novel, written by a colleague's husband, have been denied damages for psychiatric injuries.

The Queensland Coroner has recommended that Australian Standards for mobile cranes be amended to address free-fall functions, after a worker was killed when he was struck by a section of a power-line tower.

Bunnings has been ordered to pay $700,000 in damages to a worker who went into a coma and suffered septicaemia after inhaling fertiliser dust while performing a routine task.

Two companies that owed a worker at a work Christmas party a duty of care aren't liable for injuries he sustained when he was assaulted, the Queensland Supreme Court has ruled.

An employer might have prevented a supervisor's death if it conducted regular random inspections of its night-shift crew, the Queensland Coroner has found.

A company owner who refused to cooperate with safety inspectors in an investigation into the death of a person at his workplace has been criticised for posing a danger to public safety.