The Essendon Football Club has pleaded guilty to OHS charges relating to the 2011-12 supplements scandal, while the Supreme Court has granted a former player access to AFL documents to help him decide whether to sue the club and the AFL for exposing him to health and safety risks.
A coronial inquest into a string of quad bike deaths has found that many quad fatalities involve "user error", but these errors are often only apparent with the benefit of hindsight, and don't excuse manufacturers from applying the hierarchy of controls to reduce operator risks.
Two state governments today introduced domestic and family violence leave for public sector employees, while Labor has vowed to make such leave a "universal workplace right" if it wins the next Federal election.
In a long-running dispute, a superior court has found that a worker with occupational asthma has a 40 per cent degree of disability, and is entitled to sue his employer for damages.
To address safety risks effectively, employers must understand how all managerial decisions affect workplace health and safety, and apply that knowledge to all business decisions, according to Safe Work Australia's fourth and final report on the role of accounting in WHS governance.
In the lead up to White Ribbon Day this week, new research has shown employers can provide workers with paid domestic violence leave at minimal cost, while White Ribbon Australia has accredited 14 employers for amending their workplace policies to tackle domestic violence.
A union's opposition to a tobacco smoking ban at a large workplace was "ameliorated" by the measures the employer put in place to help workers quit or reduce the habit, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer has reduced its total-recordable injury frequency rate by 24 per cent by increasing managers' visibility in the field, rewarding safety-conscious workers and introducing an HSE "action program", its latest sustainability report says.
