A company that failed to protect workers from the risk of falling objects is solely liable for a man's permanent brain injuries, $2 million-plus damages award and $920,000 workers' comp bill, an appeals court has found.
An appeals court has confirmed that a principal contractor is 40 per cent liable for a worker's fall through a roof, in a long-running case involving multiple safety prosecutions and damages claims.
An employer that incorrectly assumed a WHS manager had implemented its safety systems at a new site has become the second entity to be convicted over a serious forklift incident.
Following a procedure mandated by a PCBU in its cardinal safety rules would have cost nothing, taken just a few minutes and prevented a subcontractor sustaining permanent brain injuries at a customer's site, a judge has found in sentencing the PCBU.
Queensland should amend its workers' compensation laws to protect workers engaged by gig-economy companies like Uber and Airtasker, and push for the changes to be adopted nationally, a major review of the State scheme has found.
An appeals court has rejected an employer's claim that a facility maintenance contractor's failure to fix a path that became hazardous during wet weather made the contractor liable for a worker's injuries.
A major company that escaped prosecution over the 2013 deaths of three pedestrians was responsible for ensuring the structural stability of the wall that collapsed onto the non-workers, a coronial inquiry has found.
