An employer breached its duty of care to a worker in encouraging her to take on a client with a known history of substance abuse and violent behaviour, who s-xually assaulted her, a superior court has found.
A coronial inquest into the death of a worker, which led to the WHS prosecution of a young colleague, has found a safety regulator failed to test the veracity of their employer's claim that the colleague had received an adequate induction and mentoring.
The first entities charged with reckless conduct under the South Australian WHS Act have failed to restrain the Royal Queensland Show from refusing to accept their inspection certificates for rides.
An injured worker has failed to convince an appeal court that his employer was negligent in failing to train him on how to replace a specific piece of pipework containing caustic solution.
An employer has been found vicariously liable for a manager bullying and overworking an employee, and ordered to pay the employee $436,000 in damages for a psychiatric injury.
A coronial inquiry into the deaths of two train drivers has examined the phenomenon of "inattentional blindness", where a person doesn't notice a fully-visible but unexpected hazard because their attention is engaged by another task.
A court has found that a man's post-traumatic stress disorder arose from a workplace electric shock, but awarded him just a fraction of his $330,000 damages claim.
