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A worker's workplace had sufficiently unsafe second-hand smoke issues to be slapped with an improvement notice, but this did not show the workplace aggravated his emphysema, a tribunal has found.

Comcare has been cleared of liability for a worker's sedentary and manual handling injuries, but its claim that her incapacitating secondary psychological illness, which arose from working with pain, was no longer work-related has been rejected.

A major government employer's attempt to return an injured worker to full duties was an "abject failure" that caused the man to suffer mental injuries, a tribunal has found. It found the employer misapplied an independent medical examination report in its "unyielding" efforts to deny the man sick leave.

A psychologically injured worker claiming he was a "punching bag" for a major bank's angry customers never told his manager about this issue and did not have "particularly heavy" exposure to difficult customers, a tribunal has found in concluding the bank isn't liable for his condition.

An employer's "extensive" worksite assessments and ergonomic measures have helped block a worker's claim that his sudden onset of back pain was caused by work and a new standing desk.

A tribunal has upheld a worker's bid to obtain her supervisors' disciplinary records and details of any complaints made against them, to show if they had a "propensity" to bully subordinates to support her psychological injury claim.

A major government employer ignored "clear warnings" and recommendations from a worker and its own doctor on minimising the impact of a major workplace change, exacerbating the vulnerable worker's psychological injury and incapacitating her for work, a tribunal has found.

A regulator has unsuccessfully argued that surveillance footage of a worker maintaining a social life and enjoying recreational activities meant she was no longer incapacitated by physical and psychological injuries stemming from two workplace falls.

A worker claiming a badly maintained work road and the actions of a workplace paramedic caused him to suffer a stroke has been granted permission to pursue compensation.

An injured worker's "total focus on surgery" and failure to pursue alternative and more "robust" pathways to recovery made further surgery unreasonable under injury laws, a tribunal has found.