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• Critical safety information not relayed to worker; and
  
• Workplace safety "warrior" among Vic award winners.

A worker injured by s-xual harassment has won her appeal against her low damages award of $10,000, with a superior court describing the amount as "derisory" in an important decision on what constitutes serious harassment.

• Director faces jail under recklessness charge; and
  
• Employer fined over poor safety culture and severe injuries.

Three employers have been fined a total of nearly $1.5 million over an explosion and a structural collapse, including one company that failed to ensure customers transported dangerous goods in a safe manner, and a business that failed to properly instruct personnel on an unfamiliar work procedure.

• Safety-prosecution changes demanded after $1.5m fine imposed; and
  
• Workplace heat warning issued with concerning forecast.

An employer has been handed a $1.5 million fatality fine, in a workplace health and safety prosecution triggered by a union-requested review.

A Melbourne business and its directors have been fined, and a worker compensated, after the worker claimed he was subjected "to unreasonable health and safety risks because of his race" and unfairly sacked.

A worker seeking common law damages has proved her employer breached its safety duties to her during her post-injury return to work, but failed to show any breach caused or worsened her condition.

A tribunal has highlighted the proactive safety duties of employers and slammed a company director and a manager for their responses to a worker's complaint about a colleague staring at her breasts.

A major clothing retailer had a system for lightening trolleys but failed to enforce it, negligently allowing workers to choose their own method of loading and unloading them while under pressure to meet quotas, a superior court has found.