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WorkCover NSW is calling for feedback on a set of proposals it says will deliver more cost-effective services to injured workers. Also in this article, WorkCover has announced changes to the State's workers' comp rules that take effect on 1 April.

Tasmanian employee linked to adult DVD denied workers' comp; Workers' comp fraudsters found guilty; WorkCover NSW investigating amputation; and Safety alerts and mine report released.

In a case that upholds an employer's right to dismiss workers for misconduct that jeopardises their safety, Fair Work Australia has quashed a ruling that played down the seriousness of a worker's safety breach.

Safe Work Australia's new compendium of workers' compensation statistics has identified a decline in serious injury claims, and has once again shown there are far more work-related deaths than indicated in its notified fatalities reports.

The Queensland Coroner in investigating the deaths of two miners and a police officer has likened the risk of commuting while fatigued to drink driving, and is urging the Mines Inspectorate to enforce fatigue-management standards.

Injured NSW workers who are dismissed because of their condition are entitled to seek reinstatement through the State Industrial Relations Commission - even if their application has been rejected by a federal tribunal, a judge has ruled.

A Queensland secretary who injured her back while lifting a box of paper has been awarded nearly $240,000 in damages, after a judge found she had not been trained to lift things safely.

A motor vehicle insurer has been found liable for an injury sustained by a worker while his truck was being loaded at an off-road ACT location.

A Victorian worker should not have been permitted to perform heavy manual-handling work alone and without mechanical assistance, the Supreme Court has found, in awarding him more than $1,000,000 in damages.

A Queensland employer was justified in seeking further details of an absent worker's illness, after nearly two months' worth of medical certificates merely described her as "medically unwell", the IRC has found.