A man who pretended he had OHS qualifications, forged a diploma and worked as a health and safety coordinator for nearly a year, has convinced a tribunal to restore his weekly injury payments.
A BHP subsidiary has been handed a record-high South Australian WHS fine of $390,000, after a discrepancy in its procedures led to a worker moving too close to an unsupported mine wall, before being killed by falling rocks.
A worker who fell at home and lost his hearing in one ear has been awarded compensation for permanent impairment, after a tribunal found two work injuries he sustained four years before the fall were significant contributing causes of the new injury.
A regulator has been granted Supreme Court permission to appeal against two major decisions allowing injured workers to "combine" their impairments to obtain greater lump sum and weekly compensation payments.
A worker has been denied workers' compensation for heart, lung and kidney failure arising from a work-related knee injury, after a tribunal found the "gross failures" of his doctors broke the chain of causation between his work injury and subsequent incapacity.
An employer has successfully appealed a decision awarding compensation to a worker who allegedly contracted whooping cough at work, before suffering a related incapacitating stroke.
Injured workers whose conditions aren't considered "serious", but who are unable to work, will have uncapped access to weekly benefits and medical expenses under a narrative test, if recommendations from a South Australian parliamentary inquiry are adopted.
A regulator has been blocked from using a deeming provision to exclude an injured worker from the workers' comp scheme, in a major decision clarifying the reach of the provision and controversial transitional arrangements.
