A South Australian worker who played competitive basketball while claiming workers' compensation for wrist injuries has been handed a three-month suspended jail sentence.
Two NSW employers that failed to provide PPE to two employees who worked outside have been found liable for their skin cancer conditions, one of which resulted in a leg amputation.
Another jurisdiction conducting double WHS review; Regulator targeting concrete companies as heavy vehicle trauma report released; Safety incidents cause one farm death per week; and Alerts and other safety news issued in four jurisdictions.
UK researchers have found that workers with epilepsy or diabetes are no more likely than others to sustain workplace injuries, and warned that employers could be applying "unwarranted limitations" on them.
An employer didn't discriminate against a worker with a brain injury when it refused to offer her permanent employment unless she was capable of working night shifts, the Queensland Court of Appeal has ruled.
The Fair Work Commission has, in rejecting an employer's costs claim, stressed that workers who unsuccessfully apply for anti-bullying orders will "only rarely" be ordered to foot the legal bill.
A global employer has slashed its recordable injury frequency rate by striving to improve its general business practices, according to its safety managers.
Western Australia has replaced the term "harmonisation" with "modernisation" to describe the drafting of new WHS laws for its resources sector, suggesting the laws will differ considerably from those in other jurisdictions. Meanwhile, the State mining regulator has released new guidelines and fatality reports.
A Western Australian employer that failed to ensure workers adhered to a modified elevated work platform's lifting capacity has been fined for OSH breaches, after the machine was overloaded and toppled over. Also in this article, two Queensland farm workers have been killed in vehicle incidents.
