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A worker with permanent brain injuries has been awarded more than $12 million in damages, after a court found a manager's "consistent turning of a blind eye" to written policies showed the worker didn't breach any safety rules when she crashed a vehicle.

A coronial inquest into the death of a worker, which led to the WHS prosecution of a young colleague, has found a safety regulator failed to test the veracity of their employer's claim that the colleague had received an adequate induction and mentoring.

A worker who dislocated his ankle after having a seizure has been awarded compensation, after a tribunal found his employment "positioned" him in circumstances that caused the injury. Also in this article, a sole trader has been fined for breaching the WHS provision on "fixtures, fittings or plant".

• Worker fined for defying fatality-related WHS training order; and
  
• Inquiry into "unjust" RTW scheme gets green light in SA.

An employer that failed to guard a lift shaft, resulting in a worker falling 12 metres, has been fined just six per cent of the maximum penalty, after a court found other PCBUs didn't comply with its "layers of safety measures".

An employer's training failures resulted in two workers choosing the wrong type of forklift for a lifting task, and one of them being killed, the NSW District Court has found in fining the company $255,000.

A young worker was electrocuted in an "unsafe and dangerous" workplace overseen by a CEO who was ignorant of WHS laws for residual current devices (RCDs), a coronial inquest has found.

A major employer of young people reinvigorated its safety culture by producing a music video featuring employees, its general manager says.

In a rare case, an employer has been fined for breaching OHS laws in relentlessly bullying a teenage apprentice, who now suffers from anxiety and depression.

A not-for-profit organisation that assigns apprentices to host employers has become the first entity to be convicted for breaching the consultation provisions of the model WHS Act.