An ACT employer that failed to ensure its loaded trolleys had handles, so workers didn't have to bend to push them, has been ordered to pay an injured worker more than $1 million in damages.
Workers who receive regular feedback and recognition from their employers have higher levels of wellbeing and lower stress levels, but a new study shows that fewer than half of working Australians receive this support.
Employers are being urged to reconsider the length of night shifts for contractors, after a study found the odds of an "event" resulting in a mining contractor's death - instead of an injury or near miss - increased after eight hours into shifts beginning at 11pm.
A South Australian employer that repeatedly engaged a maintenance contractor to fix an inherently unsafe mechanical hoist, instead of overhauling the machine, has been fined for OHS breaches, after a worker fell down the hoist shaft and was knocked unconscious.
Employers can reduce workplace stress levels by giving employees the same flexibility as managers to "adjust their work" when they feel "out of sorts", according to Swedish researchers.
Queensland's OHS regulator has been advised by the Coroner to introduce safety regulations for the hazardous house-removal industry within a year, after a young worker was fatally crushed beneath a house on his second day on the job.
A NSW company director who knew his workers deliberately exposed themselves to chemical fumes to "get high", but failed to stop them and enforce PPE requirements, has been fined for OHS breaches, after a worker died from exposure to solvents.
A major Safe Work Australia report has found that 63 per cent of the work-related deaths that occurred in 2012 involved vehicles, while falling objects also caused a high-proportion of deaths. SWA has also released a special report on deaths and injuries arising from falls from height.
