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A man's employment significantly contributed to him taking up smoking as an impressionable teenager and eventually dying of tongue cancer, a tribunal has ruled in awarding his widow workers' compensation.
Europe's peak OHS agency has warned that a rise in management-led health and safety arrangements can reduce the effectiveness of worker representation processes.
Three unions and three organisers have been fined a total of $101,500 for unlawful industrial action at a paper mill, after the Federal Court rejected claims that they needed to halt work because of poor first-aid arrangements.
A parliamentary committee will inquire into an abandoned fatality-related WHS prosecution, while the powers of South Australian HSRs will be aligned with other states, if initiatives moved by the Greens are passed.
A safety regulator has issued four prohibition and improvement notices to three employers involved in an oil rig where a worker was killed two years ago.
A school has entered the first enforceable undertaking under New Zealand's new workplace health and safety laws - based on Australia's model WHS Act - after two students suffered lacerations in a scene simulating their throats being cut.
An employer's job hardening program has helped workers who are at high risk of recurring injuries meet the physical demands of their roles, and potentially added more than five years to their working lives.
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.
