A PCBU has been fined after an inexperienced teenage worker's fingers were amputated, just months after another worker was killed at the same site. Meanwhile, a worker has been awarded nearly $1.4 million after he was seriously injured moving 250kg slabs on his second day on the job.
A study of more than a million workers has found high levels of wrist movement can more than double the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), but office work is not affected by this hazard.
Swedish researchers have identified the two main causes of neck pain in workers, and stress that employers need to monitor the impact of interventions to reap benefits like reduced sick leave.
An employer that required a worker to manually handle an 85kg object has failed to escape liability for his lift injury, by arguing he initially told supervisors he might have sustained it at the gym.
An employer took steps to prevent physical injuries through its "no-lift" policy, and to prevent alleged bullying through roster changes and mandatory training, the Fair Work Commission has found in dismissing a worker's bid for stop-bullying orders.
Forceful handgrip work is one of three occupational biomechanical exposures that can cause radial tunnel syndrome, a common and costly nerve entrapment condition similar to carpal tunnel syndrome, European researchers have discovered.
An employer negligently allowed a worker to carry out manual handling tasks on an "unpredictable" surface, a court has found in awarding the man nearly $450,000 in injury damages.
A worker's failure to abide by a "rough rule of thumb" in a manual handling document did not amount to him negligently contributing to an injury resulting from his employer's OHS breaches, an appeals court has found.
A host employer breached its duty of care to a worker by allowing him to work in a poorly lit area and failing to act on his request for better lighting, a court has ruled.
An employer's duty to provide a safe system of work extends to maintaining and enforcing such a system, including where an alternative system creates a foreseeable risk of injury of any severity, an appeals court has found in upholding an injured worker's $1.4 million award.
