Manager's death highlights small business safety gaps; Employers urged to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds; and High-risk work licences expiring in Northern Territory.
The Queensland Bus Industry Council (QBIC) will partner with gyms, and a celebrity chef, under a new health and wellbeing program aimed at improving workers' lifestyle habits.
An effective return-to-work process hinges on cooperation between injured workers' GPs and employer-appointed occupational physicians (OPs), but do the former doctors trust the latter?
A Victorian employer has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that a young injured worker - who can neither sit nor stand "for any significant length of time" - can perform light duties such as traffic controlling.
The Fair Work Commission has found that it can consider work incidents that occurred before January when determining applications for stop-bullying orders, and rejected an employer's claim that bullying was legally "neutral" before the new anti-bullying provisions took effect.
A worker suffered catastrophic injuries and died after her employer directed her to use a faulty cherry picker for "a purpose contrary to its design", the Queensland Coroner has found.
Two train drivers - one with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and another who suffered a stroke - were fairly sacked after being off work for more than 18 months, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A former Quarantine employee who claimed workers' compensation nine years after allegedly sustaining a bullying-related psych injury, and then failed to appeal against an AAT decision in favour of Comcare within the required time, has had his case thrown out by the Federal Court.
