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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
A mechanic who was sacked after the wheels fell off a bus he had worked on would have been aware of the correct maintenance procedures if he read the work order properly, a commission has found.
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.
