A company has been fined for failing to ensure employees could competently assess load weights for mobile plant, after a young worker's leg was amputated, while a business operator has been handed a suspended prison sentence for fraudulently obtaining workers' comp reimbursements on behalf of employers.
The Fair Work Commission has amended a stop-bullying order to protect both current and former employees of a labour-hire company based at a Melbourne brewery.
An employer has been convicted and fined $80,000 after a worker fell three metres down an unguarded stairwell void, while a local council has entered a $120,000 enforceable undertaking after an employee's foot became entangled in a machine.
In a case highlighting the ongoing costs of unsafe work practices, a major employer has failed to recoup a $1.4 million injury payment through accident insurance.
Public sector employees in Victoria aren't protected by the Fair Work Act's anti-bullying provisions because OHS was excluded from the industrial matters referred to the Commonwealth seven years ago, a commissioner has explained in dismissing a worker's claim.
The High Court has found that a jury should have been allowed to hear and consider an injured worker's claim that her employer breached OHS regulations on hazardous manual tasks.
An employer breached its duty of care in failing to prevent a worker, who was on call 24 hours a day, from working up to 70 hours a week and developing a psychiatric injury, the Victorian Supreme Court has found.
A major employer was negligent in failing to notify a contractor of faulty wiring, which prevented it from carrying out work correctly, and led to a worker receiving an electric shock, a court has found.
Two entry permit holders breached the OHS requirements of the Fair Work Act by walking down a construction-site pathway blocked by bollards, a judge has found, despite acknowledging that a foreman and workers also used the path.
