An employer has been ordered to donate $120,000 to an environment trust after fumes escaped from an unattended tank and caused 15 workers from a neighbouring business to go home sick with headaches and nausea.
Two employers have been fined a total of nearly $640,000 for breaching NSW's mirror WHS Act, after workers were killed in separate front-end loader and crane incidents.
A contractor involved in the construction of the Sydney Opera House has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that there was no evidence it knew asbestos was used at the site. The Court also found that damages awarded to the family of a mesothelioma victim cannot be reduced by compensation already paid to the widow.
Systems of work that involve bending and twisting while lifting objects don't necessarily create a risk of injury that employers are required to eliminate, a superior court has found in rejecting a worker's damages appeal.
A coronial inquiry into the 2012 fire and crane collapse at the University of Technology Sydney has outlined what a contractor has done to prevent a similar incident occurring, and commended Lend Lease's evacuation of the site.
Two companies have successfully appealed against an order to pay $2.2 million in damages to a worker who slipped on a "higher than normal" step, after a superior court found there was no evidence as to whether the step was slightly or significantly higher than normal.
The High Court has found that a Fair Work Ombudsman intervention in favour of an injured worker didn't block the man from suing his former employer for damages under workers' comp laws.
