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Injured workers should follow their treating doctor's advice, and not the recommendations of a WorkCover medical panel, if the two opinions vary, a South Australian judge has ruled in a workers' comp dispute.

A worker who fails to wear PPE or properly isolate plant should face disciplinary action, but shouldn't be dismissed if the failures don't create an imminent safety risk, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A Queensland employer that claimed instructing workers on how to handle "obviously" sharp objects would have created a culture of information overload, decreasing efficiency, has been ordered to pay an injured worker more than $150,000 in damages.

An employer acted reasonably in giving a worker two days' notice to attend a counselling session following a bullying complaint, the AAT has found in rejecting the worker's psychological injury claim.

A storeman who was seriously injured when he was struck by heavy rolls of underlay, which fell from an incorrectly loaded truck, is likely to be awarded nearly $6 million in damages, after the NSW Supreme Court found two employers were equally liable for the incident.

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A worker accused of serious safety breaches was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, because he was not "solely responsible" for an incident that left a colleague injured.

A South Australian worker's back injury arose from performing physical duties at work over 14 years, and not from moving furniture at home, as contended by his employer, the WCT has found.

Three ACT employers have been ordered to pay injured workers nearly $1.5 million in damages. In separate proceedings, the Supreme Court found one of the employers had an "unsatisfactory" system for storing and lifting files, while another failed to identify and eliminate hazards at a building site.

Two Queensland workers who were assaulted by colleagues have lost their breach of contract claims, after the District Court found the attacks weren't reasonably foreseeable.