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A mining employer has been ordered to pay an injured labour-hire worker - who fell from a steep ladder on a 50-tonne dump truck - more than $1.2 million, after the NSW Court of Appeal confirmed that "common practice was not necessarily prudent practice".

A mine worker who slipped while showering at an offsite camp has won compensation for an acute shoulder injury, with the Queensland IRC defining a "remote" site as one that is a long way from where a "substantial number" of its workers usually reside.

A fly-in-fly-out worker, who apparently hurt his back while sleeping, has been awarded workers' compensation in the Northern Territory Magistrates Court.

Commonwealth to ban synthetic cannabis detected in workers; WorkSafe Victoria to target employers without workers' comp cover; and Western Australian employers fined for electricity and notice breaches.

A Telstra employee who twice fell down a set of wooden stairs that linked her home office to the rest of her house has won workers' compensation for her physical and psychological injuries.

In this article, OHS Alert reports on high-risk licences, fatality reports, safety alerts, contractor guidelines that will apply from 1 July, and other OHS news from across the country.

Employers should, from January 2012, urge contractors to conduct risk assessments for every task, even if they are not obliged under harmonised work health and safety laws to do so, OHS lawyer Jacqui Hawkins told attendees at a recent webinar.

A crane driver left tetraplegic after falling 1.5 metres to the ground has failed to prove his accident, which he cannot remember and no one saw, was caused by the negligence of any of the four companies operating at a Western Australian Goldfields site.

Bullying problem perseveres as damages awarded for racist joke; Widow wins workers' comp after red-back death confirmed; and Commonwealth workers one step closer to recess compensation.

The workplace health and safety industry could be facing a talent war, after a national survey found that only nine per cent of OHS professionals are actively seeking a new role.