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A South Australian employer that allowed workers to use a forklift to open and close a faulty roller door has been fined $66,000 for safety breaches. Also in this article, an employer has been fined after a safety consultant it engaged failed to identify a pinch point on a press.
An employer unfairly sacked a train driver for allegedly breaching the new national rail safety laws, after he failed a drug and alcohol test when he attended work for a meeting, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A Western Australian employer and its director - who was aware of a fall risk, but didn't take steps to control it - have become the latest entities to be fined after a teenage worker sustained serious head and neck injuries in a fall.
Many employers will never have to deal with one of their workers committing suicide, but they should be prepared to take immediate action just in case, the Comcare National Conference has heard.
New workers' comp laws to benefit Victorian employers; Greens vow to continue fight for presumptive workers' comp laws; and Quad bike deaths and injuries increasing in Victoria.
In an inquest into the death of a worker, who was crushed between a loader and a ute, the Queensland Coroner has examined the challenges of preventing workers from becoming complacent about safety, and the steps two major employers took after the incident to reduce risks associated with mobile plant.
Managers can "dramatically" reduce workplace stress claims by improving performance management and removing "comfort zone itis" from workplaces, says Complex Consultancy Services CEO Graeme Alford.
An employer acted reasonably in giving a worker two days' notice to attend a counselling session following a bullying complaint, the AAT has found in rejecting the worker's psychological injury claim.
A storeman who was seriously injured when he was struck by heavy rolls of underlay, which fell from an incorrectly loaded truck, is likely to be awarded nearly $6 million in damages, after the NSW Supreme Court found two employers were equally liable for the incident.
