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A worker has been denied compensation for industrial deafness because he failed to meet any of the three criteria for eligibility. Meanwhile, a worker has failed, on appeal, to prove exposure to workplace alarms caused his hearing loss.

In another case that appears to extend common law duty of care principles, a "non-employer" has been ordered to pay an injured labour-hire worker $1.35 million in damages, after its tagging failures allowed an unidentified person to interfere with vital equipment.

An employer could have prevented a worker's slip and fall by conducting periodic OHS audits and slip-resistance tests in wet areas, a court has found in awarding the worker nearly $500,000.

A worker who accused his managers of engaging in a "witch hunt" on him has been denied compensation for a psychiatric injury, after a commission found he wrongly perceived reasonable supervision as micromanagement.

An appeals court has quashed a PTSD victim's $450,000 workplace damages award, after finding an earlier judgment failed to apply the "but for" test of causation.

A worker whose psychological condition severely deteriorated after he suffered a needlestick injury has been awarded more than $300,000 in damages.

An employer breached its duty of care to an off-site worker in giving her vague instructions to "comfort" an obese client, and has been ordered to pay her $332,000 in damages for injuries she sustained when the client fell on her.

Supermarket group Aldi has beaten a negligence action by one of its checkout operators, who alleged she was injured as a result of the company's defective manual handling systems.

A double amputee has been granted supreme court permission to sue nine employers for damages, five years after he sustained his catastrophic injuries in what should have been an exclusion zone.

An employer did not have a duty to protect the psychological health of a worker from investigation letters blaming her for a physical altercation that left her with injuries, an appeal court has confirmed.