An employer that modified a machine without conducting a risk assessment has been fined for safety breaches, after a worker's fingers were amputated. Meanwhile, another employer has been allowed to withdraw its OHS guilty plea, after discovering an injured worker might have ignored a warning sign.
A worker's psychiatric injury arose out of reasonable management action carried out in an unreasonable and "extreme" manner, a commission has found in upholding his compensation claim.
In a rare case, an employer has been fined for breaching OHS laws in relentlessly bullying a teenage apprentice, who now suffers from anxiety and depression.
A recent court judgment quashing a damages claim shows that surveillance of injured workers performing multiple activities over consecutive days can defeat the "good days and bad days" defence, according to a compensation lawyer.
Victoria Police can start overcoming its notorious s-xist organisational culture, which includes cases of rape, by publicly acknowledging harm to employees and establishing a "redress scheme", according to an independent review of the organisation.
Improving awareness about menopause in the workplace, and supporting those experiencing it, requires employers to provide information not only to women, but to men in their roles as partners and line managers, a university professor says.
The death of a worker who accidentally overdosed on painkillers has prompted a coroner to recommend employers provide better support to employees with health problems.
An apprentice who has a 70 per cent whole person impairment as a result of being engulfed in flames at a work birthday party, where a large amount of free alcohol was supplied, has successfully sued his employer.
A young worker who died after being left to operate a forklift alone in an industrial freezer hadn't received OHS or forklift training, the NSW Coroner has found.
The first step in making leaders accountable for workplace safety is holding focus groups and asking them what the stupidest things they've been told to do are, a recent OHS Alert webinar heard.
