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A worker who was repeatedly groped by her director has been awarded $733,000 in damages, after the NSW District Court found her employer exposed her to serious and immediate danger in failing to act on her complaints.

An employer has been fined a total of $225,000 in two separate judgments - involving NSW's old and new safety legislation - for failing to ensure two employees working near conveyor belts could reach an emergency stop switch.

• Employers fined $470k over death and fatigue breaches;
  
• SA's presumptive cancer comp laws extended to volunteers; and
  
• Workers killed in nine industries in July, while five workers killed in 11 days.

• NSW employers fined 5% of maximum WHS penalty;
  
• Employers fined over double fatality and drunken forklift incident; and
  
• Healthy ACT workplaces could win free advertising.

A company that created a "hidden danger" when it loaded a truck is more liable for a worker's serious injuries than the worker's employer, the NSW Court of Appeal has found in a $5.75 million damages case.

An employer has been ordered to pay nearly $700,000 in damages to a contract driver who injured his back while unloading jammed pallets from a truck, after a judge found the man was unlikely to complain about poorly packed loads for fear of losing work.

A labourer's "horrific" death was caused by unqualified supervision, poorly explained rules and minimal training, the NSW Coroner has found.

NSW employers fined for construction and dangerous goods breaches; NZ employer fined after worker killed by dilapidated forklift; SWA and NSW release workers' compensation reports and guidance; New NOPSEMA boss appointed; and Australia's safest seafarers announced.

TWU calls for supply-chain accountability after Cootes fined; and SWA updates hazardous chemicals list.

Calls to eliminate major-project safety "cracks"; and NSW employer and director fined over amputation after interlock disabled.