A major employer that has received two record-high workplace health and safety penalties, and could be fined millions of dollars over two road deaths, has been charged with more WHS contraventions, this time in relation to an ACT incident.
A major defence contractor has been convicted and fined $450,000 over a death, after a court heard it had been aware that workers were experiencing difficulties with what turned out to be the fatality-causing task.
The national model Work Health and Safety Regulations have been amended to expressly ban hazardous work processes and update references to certain Australian Standards.
A worker's "serious cardiac symptoms" at work involved a "sudden physiological change", meaning he suffered a compensable "frank injury", a tribunal has ruled.
A worker has lost her claim that constant keyboard and mouse tasks, and her employer's mismanagement of her overuse injury, are the causes of her chronic pain - years after she ceased work.