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An employer has defeated a worker's claim that the injuries she sustained on a work road could only have occurred through an act of negligence by a colleague, for which the employer was vicariously liable.

A major employer should have given a worker more time to prepare for a disciplinary meeting and possibly rectify his transgressions, a commission has ruled in finding the purportedly "casual" meeting was unreasonable action that wholly or predominately caused his debilitating psych injury.

An appeals commission has confirmed an injured worker's incapacity, after allegedly being s-xually assaulted by a colleague at a social event, was caused by her employer's conduct in managing her return to work.

An employer that made wholesale changes to a unit's roster has been found liable for a worker's insomnia, in a decision exploring whether abolishing an employee's ability to work from home constitutes a transfer or the removal of an employment benefit.

A worker who was trapped in a work lift for more than an hour has proved she sustained post-traumatic stress disorder from the ordeal, with a commission rejecting her employer's "attack" on her medical records.

A supervisor's act of telling a worker, who struggled to meet his targets, to hurry up, was not bullying, a court has found in rejecting the worker's claim for nearly $500,000 in damages.

The decision of two workers to drive home in convoy after night shifts created a "real and substantial connection" between their employment and an accident that led to one of them developing post-traumatic stress disorder, a commission has ruled.

An employer has been ordered to pay death benefits to the dependents of a "subcontractor", whose death led to the WHS prosecutions of multiple parties and $620,000 in fines.

A superior court has ordered the redetermination of worker's chronic pain claim, after finding earlier decisions against the man failed to abide by the strict diagnostic criteria for these types of conditions.

An appeals commission has quashed a decision that a worker's fatal heart attack was caused by work-related road pollution, finding the decision maker failed to assess the "status of the conclusions reached" in studies on the link.