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A worker who felt undue pressure to perform tasks beyond her work restrictions, after her post-surgery return-to-work plan was not communicated to management, has successfully argued she has compensable a psychological injury.

A workplace supervisor who was initially charged with four counts of manslaughter, in relation to the deaths of four police officers in a road crash, could now be jailed for up to five years for a reckless breach of safety laws, with an appeals court reversing a decision to stay the recklessness case.

A long-serving worker who experienced five years of bullying from a co-worker in the form of verbal threats and aggression has been awarded compensation for a psychological injury, after the bully was promoted to be his supervisor.

A worker who sustained a psychological injury, after her employer started monitoring her work schedule, has won her bid for compensation, with a commission finding the actions of her team leader didn't constitute a "performance appraisal" invoking the reasonable-action defence.

• Workplace health and safety officer jailed over cover-up; and
  
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A superior court has highlighted the necessity, under safety laws, to match high level engineering controls with "robust" training and active supervision, in finding an employer's $20,000 safety fine was manifestly inadequate, and ordering that it be resentenced.

• Platform used by public collapses, employer fined; and
  
• No-go zones urged for National Farm Safety Week.

An employer charged with WHS breaches after a blast hurled rocks at workers inside an exclusion zone has escaped conviction, with a regulator failing to prove beyond reasonable doubt that appointing a supervisor with less than "optimal" experience was a breach of the employer's duty.

In an extremely rare development, a judge has found the WHS offences of a reckless PCBU and a "worker" deserved the highest available penalties, totalling $3.15 million. They were charged over the grisly death of a man who was dragged into a woodchipper, and whose disappearance went unnoticed because the PCBU's systems were "so haphazard".

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• Untrained workers handed chemical job, employer fined; and
  
• Crane supplier charged with safety offences.