CMG shifts focus to TRIFRs, as Georgiou 'personalises' safety; More model WHS Codes for mines released in NSW; and New accident compensation laws commence in the NT soon.
WorkCover NSW reveals 2014-15 premium rates; SA Independents to determine future of cancer compensation laws; and Maximum workers' comp payments increasing in WA.
WHS Codes of Practice have been adopted, tweaked or released for comment in Queensland and NSW, while the MUA has slammed a renewed call to scrap the draft WHS Code for stevedoring in the wake of a workplace death.
The NSW WCC has found a worker who was injured while travelling between her two employers' workplaces is entitled to journey compensation, but only one of the employers is liable.
Husband and wife breached WHS Act after buying chemicals online; WA employer fined in first asbestos-identification prosecution; Bystanders dominate work-related road death toll; and Union predicts high truck-related fatality rate for 2014.
An employer must pay the family of a worker who died when she fainted and fell onto train tracks during a work journey more than $400,000 in compensation, after a NSW WCC ruling.
Worker rightly sacked for ignoring safety alarm; Duty holders fined for hand tool and helmet breaches; Video safety alert for forklifts and other warnings issued by regulators; and Fatigue exemption extended for heavy vehicle drivers in Queensland.
An employer has been ordered to pay the family of a worker, who was kidnapped and murdered while performing duties after-hours, nearly $300,000 in death benefits in the NSW WCC.
Friday was a busy day for the NSW workers' comp scheme, with the High Court upholding an employer's appeal against a retrospective-amendment ruling, and the Finance Minister announcing a review of the 2012 scheme overhaul.
