An employer that decided against resolving a psychologically injured worker's many grievances was not negligent because it delayed the process out of concern for his wellbeing, an appeals court has found in denying the worker damages.
A site supervisor has been fined for failing to act on an identified height risk, after a worker fell five metres, while an assessor has been fined for certifying applicants for high-risk work licences as competent after they failed their tests.
An inquest has found that a 457-visa worker fell from scaffolding and drowned after he accidentally dislodged a load-bearing wedge while, according to one expert, performing "one of the most dangerous" scaffold tasks "I have ever witnessed".
A July 2011 crane death and a recent double fatality, which led to manslaughter charges, might not have occurred if an Australian Standard for concrete applied to civil construction works, a coronial inquest has found.
An employer wasn't negligent and didn't breach its duty of care to a worker who injured his back while retrieving tools from an elevated work platform, a court has ruled.
A principal contractor previously convicted and fined over a worker's three-metre fall, has been ordered to pay 40 per cent of the man's common law damages for failing to "retain and exercise a supervisory power".
A worker who incorrectly lowered a loading platform more than 300 times in 18 months, before falling onto a concrete floor, was "wholly responsible" for his injuries, a court has ruled.
