A major employer has been ordered to pay a worker $47,676 for dismissing him for failing to evacuate after an explosion, with a commission finding the evacuation procedures were neither clearly understood nor consistently applied.
A worker who claimed his supervisor held a gun to his chest, and repeatedly bullied him for being "too old" to return to work after being injured, has been awarded workers' compensation.
A targeted assessment program has found that employers in the mining sector are breaching their own fatigue management plans by allowing supervisors to work excessive hours, and failing to implement control measures consistently across sites.
An employer has been ordered to pay more than $1.7 million in damages to a manager who was forced into medical retirement after a new CEO repeatedly "harassed, mistreated, devalued and undermined" her for 11 months.
Line managers aren't doctors and for them to determine workers' fitness for work based on drug and alcohol test results can have serious ramifications, according to an occupational and environmental physician.
A site supervisor and an operations manager have been fined for ignoring workers' safety concerns and directing concrete panels to be placed next to powerlines. Meanwhile, a regulator has issued a height warning, following a series of falls, prosecutions and category 1 WHS charges.
An employer that sacked a manager for bullying, based on hearsay from a Workplace Health and Safety Queensland inspector, has been ordered to pay him $50,000 in compensation.
A worker who claimed a manager singled him out and micromanaged him has been refused stop-bullying orders, in a case applying a 2015 test for unreasonable behaviour.
A superior court has found a major employer harassed a female employee for suffering a gynaecological disability requiring extended absences, but stressed that employers aren't obliged to grant unpaid sick leave to such workers. Meanwhile, a s-xually-harassed apprentice has been awarded $30,000 in compensation.
A second PCBU has been fined after a young excavator operator's skull was pierced by a flying steel bar because his supervisor neglected to instruct him to close the vehicle's window.
