An employer's failure to ensure its safety documents covered all of its operations, and not just its "main game", contributed to a young worker's death, a coroner has found.
A worker who was assaulted at a work Christmas party has been denied damages on appeal, after a court confirmed a duty holder couldn't have foreseen that a group of boisterous drinkers would become violent.
Two co-workers whose romantic relationship was allegedly depicted in a novel, written by a colleague's husband, have been denied damages for psychiatric injuries.
The Queensland Coroner has recommended that Australian Standards for mobile cranes be amended to address free-fall functions, after a worker was killed when he was struck by a section of a power-line tower.
Bunnings has been ordered to pay $700,000 in damages to a worker who went into a coma and suffered septicaemia after inhaling fertiliser dust while performing a routine task.
Two companies that owed a worker at a work Christmas party a duty of care aren't liable for injuries he sustained when he was assaulted, the Queensland Supreme Court has ruled.
An employer might have prevented a supervisor's death if it conducted regular random inspections of its night-shift crew, the Queensland Coroner has found.
A company owner who refused to cooperate with safety inspectors in an investigation into the death of a person at his workplace has been criticised for posing a danger to public safety.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld an earlier decision that it was lawful and reasonable for an employer to direct an injured worker to be assessed by a company-preferred doctor before returning to work.
A Queensland supervisor who crashed a 20-tonne crane on a public road while driving it home has been denied damages, with the Supreme Court finding his employer could not have foreseen such "wilfully inappropriate conduct".
