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In a case examining the difference between managing and eliminating safety risks, the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an employer's appeal against an OHS conviction, and doubled its fine.

An aviation engineer sacked for driving an unregistered work vehicle on a public road has been reinstated, after the Fair Work Commission found his actions were driven by hunger rather than disregard for safety protocols.

A company has been ordered to pay $515,000, instead of $872,000, to a worker with debilitating PTSD, after the NSW Supreme Court found the worker's funds could be managed by a less expensive trustee than the one selected by her mother.

An employer has been ordered to pay damages to a worker who injured his back while trying to keep up with an unreasonably fast production line.

Two employers and a worker have been fined for safety breaches after incidents involving unlicensed forklift and crane operators, while Western Australian regulators have issued a series of dangerous-goods alerts.

A company director's OHS charge has been dismissed, after the NSW District Court found a workplace fire was caused by a worker's "casual act of negligence which was not condoned by any of the systems which [the director] had put in place".

A trial for a $40 million workplace injury damages claim will determine both liability and quantum, as well as overlapping issues like the use of PPE, after a supreme court judge rejected the defendant employers' bid for liability to be decided separately.

The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal has finalised its online calculator to help supply chain participants accurately determine minimum payments under its first remuneration order, which takes effect in a matter of weeks.

An employer that responded to an identified hazard by replacing an engineering control with an administrative process has been fined for WHS breaches.

The Fair Work Commission has upheld the dismissal of a worker who breached one of his employer's "golden rules" by operating a forklift while a customer was in the exclusion zone. Meanwhile, an FWC full bench has rejected a worker's appeal against a drug-related dismissal.