A worker has been refused $290,000 in damages for a back injury, but a supreme court judge found her employer did negligently expose her and others to a building's unsafe access point.
An employer has been refused permission to amend its fatigue management procedures to reduce the number of rest breaks per shift, because it failed to obtain unanimous agreement from a cross-section of workers.
An employer has been ordered to pay damages to a worker who injured his back while trying to keep up with an unreasonably fast production line.
A coronial non-inquest into a double fatality, which resulted in a record $650,000 OHS fine, has identified a range of factors that contributed to the incident, including "tick and flick" service checks and poor communication between work groups.
A major employer has failed to overturn a finding that an injured worker's health assessment should only apply to his current restricted role. In another case, a commissioner has found a worker was unfairly sacked after threatening to "go postal".
In a case highlighting the broad reach of the Fair Work Act's anti-bullying provisions, a commissioner has found that a "worker" is entitled to apply for stop-bullying orders against a resort's residents and members of its bodies corporate.
Employers are entitled to direct employees to attend a company-nominated doctor before returning to work after injury in circumstances where that return could create unacceptable health and safety risks, the Federal Court has ruled in a long-running dispute.
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