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An employer and its director have been found vicariously liable for the s-xual harassment and assault of a worker. The director had "flicked through" the employer's anti-harassment guidance, but did little else to address the issue, a tribunal found.

An employer that sat on its hands instead of installing a provided ergonomic seat in an injured worker's vehicle, has been ordered to pay the man nearly $1.5 million in damages for aggravating his condition.

• New near-miss duties and injury provisions pass in Vic; and
  
• Miller to identify barriers to managing ACT's psychosocial hazards.

• Employer charged with recklessness after two vehicle crashes; and
  
• Pay slips falsified to get benefits for injured director.

An employer did not have a duty to train an experienced driver on the "idiosyncrasies" of a vehicle under his control, and it was his responsibility to "acquaint himself with, and safely respond to" it functions, an appeals court has found in a runaway vehicle case.

A worker who was required by a major employer to incorporate a company, before falling and sustaining serious injuries at one of the employer's depots, was an "employee" for the purposes of his damages claim, a judge has found.

Employers are not required by workplace health and safety laws to "hold the hand" of experienced workers, but must take steps to ensure they have the skills to spot risks and select safe work methods, a court has found in upholding a worker's damages claim.

A court has rejected a worker's claim his employer negligently provided him with faulty equipment that forced him to adopt injury-causing postures. It found his symptoms arose from the "general physical nature" of his duties, not any acts of negligence.

An employer's system of storing stock on the ground in its busy warehouse made commercial and operative sense and was not negligent for a number of reasons, an appeals court has confirmed in rejecting an injured worker's claim for damages.

A company has been ordered to pay a worker more than $1.5 million in damages, after he suffered permanent brain damage from inhaling carbon monoxide in a work vehicle, just one day after another driver was found dead in the car.