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An employer and a supervisor have been fined a total of $195,000 after a worker was struck by a beam and fell, with a court finding they prioritised schedule pressures over their workers' safety.

An employer that accused an injured worker of workers' comp fraud has been ordered to pay the man $350,000 in damages, with a judge finding it negligently failed to implement a safe system for a frequently repeated task.

"Technical" interventions like changing a worker's workstation and redesigning tasks are the most effective for reducing and preventing lower back pain, a major review has found.

A supermarket giant's store allowed "budgetary considerations to prevail over safety considerations", and negligently caused a worker's manual handling injury by failing to provide enough staff to assist with heavy lifting tasks, a court has found.

More than a third of workers who suffer a work injury will sustain a further injury within a short period of time, according to New Zealand researchers, who say their findings reveal an "important intervention point" for preventing incidents and reducing injury rates.

Strategies aimed at improving ergonomics and targeting stressful work demands that give workers no time to think or have lunch, can reduce the rate of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, European researchers say.

A worker's failure to disclose his pervasive health conditions to doctors after he a suffered a work injury has influenced a tribunal's finding that the effects of the injury have ceased.

An employer has implemented processes for engaging specialist contractors to move equipment in hazardous circumstances, and entered a $1 million undertaking, after its alleged failure to complete a job safety analysis led to a worker being crushed by a 1.4-tonne machine.

A major Australian study covering nearly one million workers has revealed the widespread risk of knee osteoarthritis outside of traditionally physically demanding roles, showing prevention strategies are critical for medium-risk blue-collar occupations.

Hazardous manual task training forms an important part of an employer's risk identification and control processes, but can't be relied on to tackle the scourge of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, in part because it doesn't address the multiple causes of these injuries, and the techniques taught are often ignored or impractical, according to the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia.