A PCBU has been fined $375,000 after an 18-year-old apprentice, with just days of experience, was left unsupervised in a workshop and killed while working on a truck.
A PCBU fined $170,000 for endangering "other persons", by allowing an unqualified labour-hire worker to perform high-risk cranage work, has lost its appeal against its conviction, with a bench rejecting is claim the task was outside the scope of its undertaking.
A commission has overturned a decision to deny compensation to a worker exposed to p-rnographic material and abusive outbursts from her manager, rejecting a regulator's claims that the two had a civil relationship and the worker's psychiatric injury arose from reasonable management action.
A PCBU and its director were on notice from a 2014 regulatory visit and prohibition notice of their WHS duty to properly guard machinery, a tribunal has ruled in convicting and fining them over a worker's 2020 degloving injury.
A tribunal has found an interpreter suffered a compensable psychological injury from her perception of being bullied while deployed to Nauru, finding a regulator's reasonable-management-action defence failed through its inability to prove such action occurred.
Through the development of an evidence-based screening tool, and an analysis of complaints made to a WHS regulator, researchers have found the risk of workplace bullying increases through ineffective people management by supervisors, across nine major risk areas.
An employer that implemented stringent PPE requirements for a toxic substance, but then downgraded them, has been convicted over two exposure incidents, with a court finding its breaches would have attracted a $350,000 fine if it hadn't pleaded guilty.
A commission has upheld a worker's claim she suffered a psychological injury from being bullied by her supervisor, condemning the employer for rejecting her compensation bid with no legal or medical basis.
