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A court has found that a man's post-traumatic stress disorder arose from a workplace electric shock, but awarded him just a fraction of his $330,000 damages claim.
Two employers, including one that covered a dangerous ventilation shaft with a thin layer of concrete, have been ordered to pay a total of $235,000 in fines and costs, after workers sustained serious limb injuries. Meanwhile, another company has entered a $160,000 safety undertaking after a customer was injured.
A worker who was struck in the head by a falling object has been awarded $327,000 in damages, after a court found her brain injury prevented her from seeking her dream job.
A man who pretended to be a SafeWork SA inspector - possibly to advance his OHS business interests - has been convicted and fined for seven breaches of the WHS Act.
In a decision that sends a warning to all duty holders, a major company has been ordered to pay nearly $600,000 in damages to a worker who tripped on office cables.
An employer has been found not guilty of fatality-related WHS charges, after a judge found its verbal instructions were adequate, and it wasn't foreseeable that a drug-impaired worker and his colleague would defy their safety training.
Right-of-entry fines imposed on two union officials - including one who pretended his name was Steve Irwin - have been quashed by a Federal Court full bench, which found the men didn't seek entry to the relevant site under the WHS or Fair Work Acts.
A major employer was not required to prevent pedestrians from using an onsite garden path whose moderate hazards were obvious to anyone who accessed it, the Victorian Supreme Court has found in an indemnity dispute.
Two employers have been fined a total of $690,000 for serious safety incidents involving labour-hire companies, with one resulting in the death of a 15-year-old boy. In the other, a migrant worker sustained extensive burns after being told he had to use an online dictionary to translate his work instructions into his native Mandarin.
