Bis Industries has proven to be a leader in creating healthy and safe workplaces for the second consecutive year, after receiving a national award for tackling worker fatigue and keeping communities onside.
New workers' comp laws to benefit Victorian employers; Greens vow to continue fight for presumptive workers' comp laws; and Quad bike deaths and injuries increasing in Victoria.
An employer that developed a new, certifiable tool in consultation with staff to eliminate all manual handling aspects of an awkward maintenance task, is one of the winners of the 2013 Comcare awards. Also in this article, the winners of the WorkCover SA awards have been announced, while the start date of the national heavy vehicle safety law has been delayed indefinitely.
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.
Workers' comp fraudster receives suspended prison sentence; SISA winners announced as new NCSI board elected; and National workplace death toll climbs to 116.
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.
