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A "formidable and direct" manager's email reprimanding an overworked worker for working from home was unreasonable and caused a compensable psychiatric injury, a tribunal has found.

A PCBU has been fined for category-3 WHS breaches at a site where a fatality occurred - an incident that also led to the largest WHS-undertaking spend in NSW history.

A PCBU has been handed a pre-discount penalty of $300,000, after its "unexplained disregard" for guarding requirements led to the amputation of five of a teenage worker's fingers. Meanwhile, a repeat offender's latest safety fines have been increased significantly, after a regulator appealed.

A "policy maze" inhibited the staff of a school from properly categorising and risk assessing a regular off-site activity, and led to the death of a boy in a game, a coronial inquest has found.

A PCBU has been handed a pre-discount WHS fine of $600,000, after a worker suffered fatal head injuries in an incident involving an unsafely modified work box and a forklift operated by an inexperienced apprentice.

The mother of a young worker impaled on a steel rod has been awarded more than $200,000 for post-traumatic stress linked to the incident, while her son has been awarded $520,000, and two negligent companies have been ordered to foot most of the bill.

A commissioner has upheld the sacking of a supervisor who failed to investigate reports that a subordinate was breaching conduct and safety policies by regularly s-xually harassing co-workers by rubbing his genitals at work.

Employers have been told to map out and prevent access to workplace water hazards, after a local council was successfully prosecuted over the drowning death of a child. Another employer has been penalised for failing to respond to a near miss by ensuring workers wore personal protective equipment.

Many workers are subjected to threatened or actual physical violence on the job, and failing to provide them with long-term social support at work can negate the impact of immediate interventions, dramatically increasing their risk of depression and other disorders, European researchers have found.

An employer that responded to a complaint about the tone of a worker's emails by levelling a string of accusations against him has failed to prove his psychological injury arose from reasonable disciplinary action.