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A company has been found liable to pay death benefits to the dependents of an uninsured contract worker who suffered a fatal heart attack while performing "light" work at the site of one of the company's clients.

Encouraging teamwork and ensuring safety personnel provide managers with advice on legislative requirements are two vital elements researchers say facilitate workers' return to work after suffering mental health disorders.

A worker who was required to take on management duties and sack a worker, despite not being trained in such processes, has been awarded compensation for a psychological injury, with a commission rejecting her employer's reasonable-action defence.

A company that received a record-breaking WHS recklessness fine, over the death of an apprentice, has failed to reduce a $1.3 million payout to an injured labour-hire worker through the application of a "notoriously difficult" legislative provision.

A psychologically injured worker has been given the green light to pursue an unfair dismissal remedy, after his employer wrongly determined, from his prolonged absence, that he had abandoned his employment.

A regulator's claim that to prevent double-dipping it is entitled to recover compensation payments from a worker who received a s-x-discrimination settlement, could, if accepted, have a "chilling effect on the bringing of such complaints" and undermine anti-discrimination laws, a full Federal Court has warned.

A worker who began experiencing psychotic episodes after witnessing a near-fatality in the workplace does not have non-work-related schizophrenia, a commission has ruled in thwarting his employer's bid to avoid liability.

A worker has failed in her bid for compensation for a contentious disorder she claims was caused by work-related exposure to mould, although she was awarded some benefits for her allergic reaction to the biotoxin.

The highest court of NSW has rejected a major employer's renewed bid to overturn a ruling that its "draconian" implementation of a government-imposed vaccine mandate psychologically injured a worker.

The final quarter of 2023 was marked by wholesale WHS changes affecting all duty holders. This report examines the amendments, as well as changes to other laws and all the need-to-know caselaw from the period.