Optus has successfully appealed against a $3.9 million judgment for a labour-hire worker, who developed chronic post-traumatic stress disorder after a co-worker attempted to murder him.
An employer has been convicted and fined for WHS breaches, after its director identified a serious safety risk at a worksite, but then left without ensuring the necessary controls were implemented before work commenced.
A company could have lawfully terminated a worker's contract for accusing an HR manager of causing a fatality. Instead, it has been ordered to pay him compensation, after it dismissed him over a "relatively minor" incident several weeks later.
An employer has been convicted and fined after its "controlling mind" opted for an inferior method for supporting the walls of a deep trench, which led to the trench collapsing and trapping him and another worker.
A commission has upheld the dismissal of a worker for regaling colleagues with "lurid" details of his s-x life and constantly making dirty jokes, after finding that his lack of anti-bullying training was irrelevant.
A PCBU cannot block union entry while conducting its own investigation into possible WHS breaches, or require permit holders to give 24 hours' notice before viewing related documents, a commissioner has ruled in a bullying dispute.
Two employers have been ordered to pay an injured worker nearly $2 million in damages, after a court found his tasks weren't rotated because he was paired with an older man who refused to perform heavy work.
An employer has been fined $225,000 after a worker was fatally crushed by part of a 20-tonne truck, which had been propped on wooden blocks, while a regulator has urged PCBUs to review regulations for falling objects, after a worker was killed by a tailgate.
A coronial inquest into the death of a worker has recommended a seven-part safe system of work for mobile plant. Meanwhile, another coronial inquiry has warned against developing a cavalier approach to workplace safety over time, after a blasting fatality.
