Safe Work Australia has launched a major review of its 644 workplace exposure standards, with a view to amending outdated legal concentration limits. SWA has also published a range of new guidance and statistical reports.
A worker delayed reporting the cause of his painful injury because he believed his employer would force him to attend work to avoid a lost-time injury claim, a judge has found in rejecting the employer's appeal on the matter.
The High Court has found that a jury should have been allowed to hear and consider an injured worker's claim that her employer breached OHS regulations on hazardous manual tasks.
In a case "about making coffee", an employer has been ordered to pay more than half a million dollars in damages to a worker whose arm turned blue after constantly holding a two-kilogram jug.
An injured worker's common law claim against a principal contractor has been rejected, after an appeal court found that none of the factors that could impose a duty of care on a principal existed in his case.
Two entry permit holders breached the OHS requirements of the Fair Work Act by walking down a construction-site pathway blocked by bollards, a judge has found, despite acknowledging that a foreman and workers also used the path.
A host employer has been ordered to pay nearly $600,000 to a worker who injured her back using incorrect work methods, after a court of appeal majority confirmed that it failed to ensure she had "absorbed" her instructions.
An injured worker has been awarded nearly $600,000 in damages, after a court found her employer breached the Victorian OHS Regulations through its "ad hoc" cleaning regime.
