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In an important case considering the extent of employers' powers to require workers to undergo medical examinations, a full Federal Court has upheld BHP Coal Pty Ltd's dismissal of an employee for refusing to see a company doctor.

A double amputee has been granted supreme court permission to sue nine employers for damages, five years after he sustained his catastrophic injuries in what should have been an exclusion zone.

A Queensland council has been fined $170,000 for failing to implement a safe system for reversing plant, after a fatality, while a UK worker has been jailed for focusing on her mobile phone instead of a vulnerable client, who died.

Two employers have been fined a total of $240,000 after an elderly woman was killed and a young worker died in a forklift incident. Meanwhile, Victoria's weekend death toll has increased, after a painter died in hospital from his injuries.

• Asbestos and rigging rules waived in NSW and Vic; and
  
• Employers fined over fall and teenager's injuries.

An employer did not have a duty to protect the psychological health of a worker from investigation letters blaming her for a physical altercation that left her with injuries, an appeal court has confirmed.

Employers have been urged to ensure their contractors have the skills to manage fatigue, after three companies were found liable for a worker's car-crash injuries and $1.25 million damages bill.

A major employer that allowed workers to use a steel lever to move 1200kg pallets has been ordered to pay an injured worker $650,645 in damages.

An employer has been found vicariously liable for a s-xual assault on a worker, and ordered to pay part of her $313,316 damages award, after a tribunal rejected its claim that it could not have prevented the incident.

A recent $180,000 fatality fine has sent a stark reminder of the need to provide extra attention and training to young workers, especially during the "silly season", a regulator says. Meanwhile, an employer has been fined after a truck with a defective alarm rolled backwards and killed a man.