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Major legislative changes occurred in all nine Australian jurisdictions in the first quarter of 2015. This article examines these and other developments in work health and safety and workers' compensation.
A worker who fell to his death while performing an unfamiliar task while his director was away had been "left to his own devices" without a proper safety plan, the Victorian Coroner has found.
An employer's fatality-related OHS fine has been increased by $200,000 on appeal, after the Victorian County Court found it failed to take basic precautions to protect pedestrian workers from mobile plant.
Workplace drug testing programs that rely on both urine and saliva samples provide a far superior deterrent against illicit drug use than single-method regimes, according to a Fair Work Commissioner.
Governments are being warned against making "brutal cuts" to their workers' comp schemes as the workforce ages, while WorkCover Queensland has outlined how to improve the health and safety of older workers.
