An employer didn't breach its duty of care to a worker, in failing to instruct her on how to safely use a stepladder, because using the ladder was a "relatively straightforward" task, a court has found.
A superior court has rejected a worker's dust-related damages claim, but found that employers that don't have a safety management system for allergenic dust can be sued under dangerous substances laws.
In a case "about making coffee", an employer has been ordered to pay more than half a million dollars in damages to a worker whose arm turned blue after constantly holding a two-kilogram jug.
The "temporary arrangements" that must be disregarded under the state-of-connection test for workers' comp claims do not include arrangements of short duration that form part of the "normal work pattern", a superior court has found.
A young worker who injured her back when she fell off a ladder has been awarded $250,000 in damages, after a court found her employer breached scaffolding regulations in failing to require someone to hold the ladder.
Workers' comp fraudsters have been put on notice, with a judge jailing one for two years and warning that custodial sentences need to be imposed in such cases to ensure the integrity of the workers' compensation system.
An employer had been entitled to rely on an experienced subcontractor to perform a lifting task safely, a court of appeal has found in stripping the injured subcontractor of more than $820,000 in damages.
A worker who told his employer he suffered a serious injury at home, before later claiming he sustained it at work, has been awarded workers' compensation in the ACT Supreme Court.
An employer wasn't negligent in deciding not to replace a non-transparent fire door, even though it was used hundreds of times a day and the risk of being struck by it was obvious, the ACT Court of Appeal has found.
