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An employer has been convicted and fined $80,000 after a worker fell three metres down an unguarded stairwell void, while a local council has entered a $120,000 enforceable undertaking after an employee's foot became entangled in a machine.
In a case highlighting the ongoing costs of unsafe work practices, a major employer has failed to recoup a $1.4 million injury payment through accident insurance.
A judge has found that it would be unjust and unreasonable for an employer to continue varying a worker's roster for safety reasons - relating to a domestic violence incident - because it hadn't developed a safety plan in consultation with the man.
Public sector employees in Victoria aren't protected by the Fair Work Act's anti-bullying provisions because OHS was excluded from the industrial matters referred to the Commonwealth seven years ago, a commissioner has explained in dismissing a worker's claim.
An appeal court has upheld a fatality-related WHS charge, after finding the defective complaint could be amended because the defendant had been in possession of other information - like a prohibition notice - which gave it "sufficient understanding" of the accusations.
An employer could not have foreseen that a worker was at risk of being injured while using equipment designed, installed and maintained by a competent manufacturer, an appeal court has found.
In a case highlighting the importance of workers reporting all injuries, a coronial inquiry has found that a man's methylamphetamine use during a football game "significantly worsened" his pre-existing, undiagnosed brain injury in the lead up to his death.
