A NSW employer and its director have become the sixth and seventh parties to be fined over a workplace fall, which left an inexperienced construction worker with severe head injuries.
Two South Australian employers with inadequate or no safety procedures have been fined a total of $108,000, after an overseas student worker's leg was amputated, and a labour-hire worker sustained crush injuries.
Workers seen walking beneath dump truck suspended from crane; and Worker injured in "trivial" journey crash wins $390k.
A major employer's managers and supervisors will be trained in OHS legislation and how to ensure the safety of at-risk workers, such as labour-hire employees and apprentices, as part of a $250,000 enforceable undertaking.
In this update, OHS Alert examines all the important OHS and workers' comp legislative changes made in the second quarter of 2013. We also recap the most significant court and tribunal rulings and other developments in each jurisdiction.
Workers who receive little support from colleagues and managers are twice as likely to develop "significant depression symptoms", and far more likely to take sick leave, a new Safe Work Australia-commissioned report has found.
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