Forklift and traffic-management issues dominate safety blitz; NSW dust-disease Bill for victims' families defeated; and Essential safety news from across the country.
Commonwealth passes harmonisation Bill; Police to "think twice" after workers' comp changes progress; New alert issued on OHS scams; and Employers plead guilty after guarding failure and truck fire.
WorkCover NSW should make it harder for injured workers to claim damages for permanent impairment, or risk the development of an unsustainable "lump sum culture", a PricewaterhouseCoopers report has recommended.
More workers could be encouraged to claim compensation for work-related hearing loss, after the NSW WCC found that tinnitus can tip claimants over the permanent impairment threshold.
Injured NSW workers who are dismissed because of their condition are entitled to seek reinstatement through the State Industrial Relations Commission - even if their application has been rejected by a federal tribunal, a judge has ruled.
NSW employers that fail to comply with a WorkCover request for documents can now be handed on-the-spot fines, under new workers' compensation Regulations now in effect.
