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A commission has upheld a decision to deny compensation to a worker who suffered an aggravation of her psychiatric illness from an interaction with her supervisor, ruling the supervisor's imperfect actions were reasonable enough under injury laws.

A casual worker was unfairly dismissed for not complying with fatigue management laws and policies, a commission has ruled, finding his supervisors encouraged his alleged non-compliance, and rejecting his employer's claim the dismissal was not related to his coinciding request for a permanent role.

A PCBU and its director have been convicted over a worker's 6.5-metre fall onto a concrete floor, with a judge finding they were obligated to provide personnel with external height safety training, but failed to do so.

A commission president has rejected an appeal from Bunnings Group Ltd, upholding the finding that it unreasonably pressured a worker to take a transfer and aggravated her psychological conditions following the death of her mother and cousin.

An engineering company and its director have been fined a total of $460,000 after the death of a worker crushed by a one-tonne pipe, due to safety failings known to the director.

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A "lack of supervisory control" and the repeated failure to detect and report faults "represented an opportunity lost" to prevent a worker's death from being crushed on a mobile elevated work platform (MEWP), a coronial inquiry has found.

A company has been fined after a workplace health and safety inspector observed two of its apprentices performing electrical work on their own. Meanwhile, Western Australia's average workers' comp premium rate has been increased for the second year in a row.

A company's safe system for managing space and work clashes between different trades on a major project has helped block a $770,000 injury damages bid, made by a "keen" worker who took it upon himself to remove materials installed by other contractors.

A PCBU that failed to enforce a system requiring tanks to be pressure tested by a third-party expert has been convicted and fined, after a tank exploded and threw an 83kg metal object onto a public street.