Senior managers have been sent a health and safety "wake-up call", with the ACT becoming the first jurisdiction to charge an officer under the harmonised WHS laws, following a fatality.
A worker who was told by his foreman to continue performing manual tasks immediately after he aggravated an ankle injury has been awarded nearly $550,000 in damages.
An employer that told a worker to "stop wearing a skirt", when he complained about his arduous manual handling tasks, has been found liable for the man's serious back injury.
An ACT worker whose foot was crushed by a telehandler has been awarded $700,000, after a Court rejected his employer's claim that he should have devised a safer system for transporting materials.
A subcontractor who provided "perfunctory" inductions, and failed to demonstrate how to properly lift materials, has been ordered to pay an injured worker more than $330,000 in damages.
An ACT employer that failed to instruct a worker not to unload and carry heavy equipment on his own has been ordered to pay him $752,000 in damages, after he sustained a serious ankle injury.
An ACT company director was reluctant to tell older workers how to use ramps to lift heavy objects because he thought he "would not have been well liked" if he did so, the Supreme Court has found in ordering the company to pay an injured worker $1.4 million in damages.
An ACT employer that failed to ensure its loaded trolleys had handles, so workers didn't have to bend to push them, has been ordered to pay an injured worker more than $1 million in damages.
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