A union and two officials have been fined $156,900 for using "bogus" training and safety concerns to coerce an employer into continuing to provide an injured worker with suitable duties.
A new health and safety reporting framework underpinned by four key themes will help companies disclose targeted and meaningful information, creating stronger safety cultures and improving long-term financial returns, according to the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors.
A worker suffered a mental injury from being bullied and called racist names at work, but his condition ceased to be employment-related when his work-aggravated drug abuse syndrome became his "predominant problem", a tribunal has found.
A Commonwealth agency breached the WHS Act in over-relying on contracted helicopter pilots to assess the safety of landing sites in Antarctica, in the lead up to a pilot's death from hypothermia, a court has found. The helicopter company was found not guilty of breaching the Act.
Workplace bullying is often perpetrated by supervisors and managers, but workers bullied by their colleagues are more likely to develop depression, European researchers have found.
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The director of a company with a long history of safety and entry contraventions had a "deliberate policy" to breach entry laws because he believed he was being targeted by a union, the Federal Circuit Court has found in fining the director, the company and a supervisor.
A worker's failure to adhere to an employer's tiered system of risk assessments after a rare and non-routine incident was a valid reason for his dismissal, a commission has found.
