Worker with cancer allegedly sacked for sick-leave request; Cheap safety strap would have averted $42k fine; Hierarchy of controls must be followed for height work; and Safety reviews urged after work deaths and amputation.
WA asbestos-illness award increased to $2.09m; NSW community urged to comment on draft asbestos plan; and WorkSafe Vic releases construction guide, issues high-risk work warning.
OHS-conscious SA employers to pay lower premiums; Six workers' comp convictions a warning to WA businesses; Victorian osteopath convicted over 184 made-up WorkSafe consultations; Three Victorian entities fined after apprentices exposed to height risks; and WA DMP releases dangerous goods guides.
A Western Australian employer failed to comply with a Code of Practice on workplace violence and bullying when investigating complaints made against a supervisor, and then unfairly dismissed the woman, the State IRC has found.
A Western Australian employer is no longer required to pay $1 million in damages to a worker who was injured on a step, after the Court of Appeal found the stair complied with the Building Code of Australia.
A Western Australian employer has been ordered to pay more than $400,000 in damages to a worker who was injured while performing a task that it wrongly believed to be "common, practical and safe".
A teleconference that a Commonwealth Bank manager blamed for his suicide attempt cannot be categorised as "administrative action", whether unreasonable or otherwise, a full Federal Court has ruled in upholding his compensation claim.
A labour-hire company should have insisted on a remote site being inspected for safety hazards before sending workers there, the Western Australian Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled in ordering the company to pay 20 per cent of a $1 million damages bill.
A Western Australian employer's attempt to make a new finance manager "fit in" through mentoring was so mishandled it plunged him into a state of severe depression, a tribunal has found in awarding him compensation.
