With National Safe Work Month starting this week, employers are being urged to host SafeTea chats, focus on issues like mental health and workloads, and provide safer workplaces for women. Employers have also been warned to properly maintain their defibrillators.
A manager's evidence on the support a worker received has helped establish a reasonably arguable case against the worker's claim that alleged bullying and work stress caused her psychological condition.
A major employer should consider introducing a "points system" for workers' traumatic exposures, and prescribing welfare measures for workers under scrutiny to avoid "idiosyncratic or poor exercise of discretion", a coronial inquest into the suicide deaths of four policemen has recommended.
A superior court has rejected an employer's method for calculating incapacity payments and quashed a ruling that an injured worker was not entitled to interim payments because he was better off under Centrelink benefits.
A superior court has dismissed an employer's appeal against a finding that it acted unlawfully when it decided to cease an injured worker's weekly payments based on the opinion of a consultant occupational physician, who didn't keep records of her assessment or closely consider the relevant work incident.
One of Australia's big four banks has been censured for concluding, without going through the proper channels, that an employee's workers' comp claim linked to alleged "unachievable work pressures" is invalid.
In this major must-read report, OHS Alert examines all the key workplace health and safety and workers' compensation developments from the second quarter of 2023, including a wide range of actual and proposed WHS amendments, a string of high-profile safety prosecutions, and concerns around surging burnout rates.
Ambulance Tasmania's "dysfunctional" manager-to-staff ratio contributed to its "gross failure" to hold a paramedic to account for his erratic behaviour or support his welfare, immediately before his death, an inquest has found.
