The SA Workers Compensation Tribunal has found that a worker who suffers a mild sleep disorder as a result of medication for a work injury is entitled to compensation for permanent impairment.
NSW IR Minister John Della Bosca has indicated he would support the establishment of national OHS and workers' compensation systems, but only if they incorporated the best elements of each jurisdiction's current schemes.
The NSW Court of Appeal has upheld a finding that a fitter who was injured at a coal mine was entitled to more generous compensation than he would have been if injured elsewhere.
In recent cases, a South Australian employer has been fined $18,000 over an "obvious danger"; A NSW construction project manager convicted and fined for failing to properly supervise a site; and Coca-Cola prosecuted over an injury to a delivery driver at one of its sites.
Safety in the building and construction industry will be regulated by the Federal Safety Commissioner, after the Senate yesterday passed the controversial "Cole" legislation.
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It is essential that employers modify work to accommodate older workers' reduced physical capacity, according to a NOHSC paper on the OHS aspects of the ageing workforce.
An Amcor subsidiary that failed to guard a machine because it was expensive has received a $360,000 fine, after the Victorian Court of Appeal found its original penalty for a fatality was far too low.
