Coronial investigations into six chainsaw-related fatalities have found they all could have been prevented by complying with the applicable industry code and Australian Standard, or using PPE.
A superior court has found a major employer harassed a female employee for suffering a gynaecological disability requiring extended absences, but stressed that employers aren't obliged to grant unpaid sick leave to such workers. Meanwhile, a s-xually-harassed apprentice has been awarded $30,000 in compensation.
A second PCBU has been fined after a young excavator operator's skull was pierced by a flying steel bar because his supervisor neglected to instruct him to close the vehicle's window.
A judge has highlighted inconsistencies in a major employer's voluminous induction and training materials, in awarding a worker who fell off a "safety step" more than $1 million in damages.
Individuals exposed to disinfectants are twice as likely to suffer from asthma - than those not exposed to the substances - after relatively short periods of regular use, European researchers have found.
A major fast food chain has been convicted and fined $105,000 for WHS offences, after a 16-year old worker fell into a tank of hot oil left unattended by other inexperienced workers.
A man's employment significantly contributed to him taking up smoking as an impressionable teenager and eventually dying of tongue cancer, a tribunal has ruled in awarding his widow workers' compensation.
