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A safety consultant who fell in the foyer of her multi-tenanted work building was injured at her place of employment, a NSW WCC Deputy President has found.

• Registrations open for OHS Alert subscriber webinar on employee accountability for safety;
  
• Work-related death rate soars in August; and
  
• WorkCover NSW drops two scheme agents.

Injured employees in NSW are entitled to accrue leave while they're absent from work and receiving compensation - for now, the Federal Circuit Court has found.

A worker who injured his back on an EWP has lost the $650,000 in damages awarded to him under motor accident laws, after the NSW Court of Appeal found the vehicle wasn't being driven at the time of the incident.

An injured worker - who spent 90 per cent of his working time in the ACT and the rest in NSW - didn't "usually" work in the Territory, and wasn't entitled to workers' compensation under its laws, a superior court has ruled.

• Workplace harassment driven by sense of entitlement, says police chief;
  
• NSW issues heat warning and small business safety guides; and
  
• WA employers told to establish coordinated cyclone plans.

A NSW employer was negligent in failing to paint an "unusually" high step in a "strongly contrasting colour", the Supreme Court has found in upholding a permanently injured worker's damages claim.

Plant designers, suppliers and users are being reminded, in light of an excavator death, that they are obligated under safety laws to provide fit-for-purpose equipment and manage risks according to the hierarchy of controls.

An employer that failed to assign a spotter for a hazardous task has been convicted of OHS breaches, with the NSW District Court yesterday rejecting its claim that a worker's injury wasn't foreseeable because a similar incident had never occurred.

A worker who was repeatedly groped by her director has been awarded $733,000 in damages, after the NSW District Court found her employer exposed her to serious and immediate danger in failing to act on her complaints.