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The Federal Court has slammed a mine manager for his poor knowledge of safety laws and evasive evidence at trial, in finding the mine took adverse action against an injured worker in standing him down four days after he was awarded $637,000 in damages.

A worker who injured his knee falling off a ladder has been denied $720,000 in damages, after a court found he failed to prove that excessive workplace dust caused him to slip or that the site's head contractor had acted negligently.

A CFMEU official who removed safety bunting and entered a construction-site exclusion zone during a cricket match at the Adelaide Oval is one of 15 officials who, along with the union, were fined nearly $940,000 in the Federal Court on Friday.

The Queensland Coroner has, in an inquest into a worker's death, called for employers to treat workers as casualties as soon as they're affected by heat, criticised "buddy" systems, and said he was "startled" to discover that there was no construction-industry standard relating to high temperatures.

Airservices Australia has been fined $160,000 over the deaths of three architects, who were killed when an Airservices firetruck struck their vehicle.

A coronial inquest into the death of a worker, who drowned when his legs were sucked into a drainpipe, has found his employer had conflicting procedures for dealing with severe weather, and urged it to heed the warnings of world-renowned industrial psychologist Professor James Reason.

A husband and wife have been ordered to pay more than $1 million in damages to a friend who fell from a ladder while working on their roof. A supreme court judge found that while they didn't owe him a duty under work health and safety laws, they were still required to prescribe a safe system of work.

The nurse who sought damages in the world's first lawsuit involving post-traumatic stress disorder as a "bodily injury" was awarded nearly $4.4 million, plus funds management fees, the NSW Supreme Court has revealed today.

The safety company and engineer charged over the death of an eight-year-old girl at the Royal Adelaide Show in 2014 are the first parties to be charged with category 1 offences under the WHS Act in South Australia, and among the first in the country.

A NSW employer and its director have been fined more than $500,000 after a worker fell to his death through an unguarded penetration. The verdict came just weeks after the employer and a related company were fined $254,000 (with costs) for illegally dumping asbestos on the same site.