An employer could have prevented serious burn injuries, and avoided a WHS penalty, through simple measures like ensuring equipment was properly secured during transport and fitting a vehicle with safety equipment, a judgment has shown.
A workplace supervisor charged with failing to discharge his safety obligations, in relation to a fatality, has been refused Supreme Court orders restoring his certificate of competency and ability to remain employed.
A worker was required to "exercise independent judgement" on the safest way to perform an "ill defined" task on plant, which had been inappropriately modified to reduce maintenance costs, in the moments before he was killed by a "spring-back" event of "unprecedented magnitude", an inquest has found.
A worker who successfully sued his employer for negligently providing him with a faulty vehicle seat has been awarded an additional $202,708 in damages, with an appeals court finding a trial judge underestimated his likely economic loss from a back injury.
A PCBU that failed to implement a maintenance schedule for a crane or arrange its mandatory major inspection has been fined $135,000 over the death of a bystander. Meanwhile, a construction giant has been charged under the Commonwealth jurisdiction's WHS laws.
A court has rejected a worker's claims her employer caused her to develop a debilitating chemical sensitivity syndrome by negligently failing to prevent a common cleaning chemical from being used in her presence.
An employer failed to take reasonable care of a worker in allowing unqualified personnel to operate mobile machinery, but was not responsible for the injuries the worker sustained after he threw a heavy object at an inexperienced operator, a court has found.
