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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.
A worker injured in an employer-provided cabin is entitled to workers' compensation, a tribunal has found. However, it also found that the cabin wasn't his place of employment.
Switching to standing desks reduces musculoskeletal stress, but workers must increase their standing time gradually to avoid the risk of injury, an occupational physiotherapist warns.
State and territory WHS regulators will be required to penalise and issue removal orders to all supply chain parties involved in the illegal importation of asbestos, under strict liability laws recommended to a national inquiry.
A company director and one of his employees were denied access to a building site for failing to provide a safe work method statement, and not because they refused to pay their union dues as claimed by the ABCC, the Federal Court has found.
Supervisors are in the best position to minimise the negative impact that heavy workloads and client aggression have on workers' private lives, according to European researchers.
A worker who injured her back at an airport on her way home from a deployment has been awarded compensation, despite failing to lodge her claim until 82 days after the incident.
An employer has been found vicariously liable for a s-xual assault on a worker, and ordered to pay part of her $313,316 damages award, after a tribunal rejected its claim that it could not have prevented the incident.
