A PCBU has been convicted and fined for WHS offences after an offsite worker used the wrong chemical to clean a machine, resulting in a man sustaining facial burns. Meanwhile, another employer has been fined after a worker fell off an unguarded platform.
A series of workplace fatalities and a sudden spike in the national death toll have highlighted the importance of effective vehicle maintenance, traffic management, remote-work controls and other safety strategies, according to regulators and a coroner.
An inquest has found that a 457-visa worker fell from scaffolding and drowned after he accidentally dislodged a load-bearing wedge while, according to one expert, performing "one of the most dangerous" scaffold tasks "I have ever witnessed".
An appeals court has quashed a PTSD victim's $450,000 workplace damages award, after finding an earlier judgment failed to apply the "but for" test of causation.
An employer is being forced to reimburse an insurer for payments made to an injured worker, after it failed in its appeal against a decision that the worker was "usually based" in a state where it didn't have workers' comp insurance.
A tribunal full bench has upheld a worker's entitlement to workers' compensation for a mosquito-borne disease, and rejected an appeal from another worker who was denied compensation for injuries sustained at a dinner function.
A WHS fine imposed on an employer, after a worker sustained injuries resulting in quadriplegia, has been nearly doubled to $212,500 in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal.
A man stabbed by his son when he went home to check work documents removed himself from the course of his employment when he exited and re-entered the house in the moments before the attack, a commission has ruled in a compensation dispute.
A worker sacked for road rage has been awarded $15,000, after a commission found his complaint about being underpaid contributed to the decision to dismiss him.
