A man who carried out dodgy and dangerous work while posing as a licensed electrician on gig economy platform Airtasker has been fined $60,000. Meanwhile, a worker has pleaded guilty to breaching his WHS duty to a teenage colleague, after concocting a work plan that led to the youngster being crushed.
Three business partners have been fined for breaching their WHS duty to ensure imported plant - whose signage and instructions were all written in Chinese - was "without risks to the health and safety of any person".
A PCBU and its director, who relied on his managers to implement safety measures, have been convicted and fined for WHS contraventions, after a new, unsupervised employee suffered amputation injuries on a machine.
A full supreme court has upheld a $1 million-plus damages award to a workplace volunteer, after finding a WHS duty holder created a situation "fraught with risk and danger" that drove his failure to take reasonable care for his own safety.
A short program for new workers on how to enhance sleep and other forms of recovery prevented burnout and other stress-related symptoms, Swedish researchers have found.
An employer has been convicted and fined for breaching WHS laws in failing to enforce its mask requirements, resulting in a worker being poisoned with a hazardous substance.
A court has slammed a major PCBU's piecemeal actions and lack of urgency in addressing significant WHS issues and closing out recommendations from safety audits, in the lead up to the death of a volunteer worker.
Employers have been reminded that their duty to ensure the safety of their workers extends to "disobedient" staff, with a PCBU being fined over injuries sustained by a teenage trial worker who defied his supervisor's instructions. The supervisor was also charged over the incident, but acquitted.
