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A major employer has resolved an anti-bullying application to the Fair Work Commission by complying with a simple recommendation to remove two alleged bullies from a disciplinary process involving the applicant.
A local council has been fined $110,000, plus more than $8300 in costs, over a workplace death that could have been prevented through a $14,000 investment in fencing and equipment.
The High Court has rejected an injured worker's appeal against a decision quashing his $1.5 million damages award, while an appeal court has rejected another man's claim that he sustained a work-related injury three days after receiving a termination payment.
An employer that ceased trading, attempted to deregister, and set up a similar company after a worker was killed by a homemade machine, has been fined $800,000 over the death.
A worker with permanent brain injuries has been awarded more than $12 million in damages, after a court found a manager's "consistent turning of a blind eye" to written policies showed the worker didn't breach any safety rules when she crashed a vehicle.
A PCBU has been fined after a worker was fatally crushed between a hoe and a skid steer, with a court finding he hadn't been trained to attach the hoe to the vehicle, and the equipment manuals were in an office 80 kilometres from the work site.
A coronial inquest into the death of a worker, which led to the WHS prosecution of a young colleague, has found a safety regulator failed to test the veracity of their employer's claim that the colleague had received an adequate induction and mentoring.
