Browsing: Violence

• New industrial manslaughter laws to follow SA election; and
  
• Large-scale COVID testing announced for WA FIFO workers.

A psychologically injured worker's employer did not take unreasonable administrative action against him by declining to return him to work after an incident, but rather was acting out of concern for the welfare of his supervisor and colleagues, a tribunal has found.

The dependents of a worker who was fatally shot in an argument with one of his company’s suppliers have won compensation after a commission president found the death arose out of his employment.

An employer's decision to prevent a worker from attending his favoured worksite was not bullying, but informed by legitimate safety concerns over his behaviour, a commission has found in rejecting his bid for anti-bullying orders.

Employers will be required to implement "prevention plans" for psychosocial hazards ranging from aggression and bullying to high job demands, under proposed Victorian provisions that were informed, in part, by agreed changes to the national model WHS laws.

A new consultation paper examining six legislative reforms, proposed by Kate Jenkins, has included an important reminder to employers of their WHS duty to prevent and address "intimidating, hostile, humiliating or offensive" work environments.

• PCBUs advised on the management of COVID-exempt workers;
  
• Three workplace safety Codes commence in WA; and
  
• Workplace safety protections extended by s-x work Bill in Vic.

• WHS improvements agreed to for parliamentary workplaces; and
  
• "Unfit" labour provider surfaces in another company.

The standards around what constitutes consent in physical and s-xual interactions, particularly in the workplace, are significantly higher than ever before, a commission has stressed in upholding the sacking of a manager of a major bank for his conduct at a work function.

A worker has been convicted of one of the most serious workplace safety offences, of reckless endangerment, after he had an argument with a colleague and then drove his forklift into him.