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An employer unlawfully discriminated against a job applicant with disabilities through its HR manager's "impressionistic" conclusion that employing her would involve safety risks and possible breaches of WHS laws, a tribunal has found.

• Director faces jail under recklessness charge; and
  
• Employer fined over poor safety culture and severe injuries.

An appeals commission has quashed a decision denying a worker the costs of the "novel" treatment of medicinal cannabis for his chronic pain from a work injury.

A postal worker has lost his appeal, in the Federal Court, against a ruling that there is no causal connection between the injury he sustained three decades ago and his current condition.

A local council failed to comply with its legislative duty to properly review an injured worker's medical records, or consult his doctor, when preparing a return-to-work plan for him, a tribunal has ruled.

A worker seeking common law damages has proved her employer breached its safety duties to her during her post-injury return to work, but failed to show any breach caused or worsened her condition.

European researchers have confirmed, from a study of more than 400,000 workers, that a common disabling hand disorder can be caused by manual work. They identify those most at risk and say their findings should inform workplace safety strategies.

A major clothing retailer had a system for lightening trolleys but failed to enforce it, negligently allowing workers to choose their own method of loading and unloading them while under pressure to meet quotas, a superior court has found.

Two businesses have been fined a total of $800,000 over separate but alarmingly similar fatalities involving the handling of heavy materials in confined spaces. A regulator has explained how to prevent such incidents, including through consultation processes.

A company that supplied a 200 kilogram door to a worksite did not owe a safety duty of care to a worker who sustained serious injuries trying to lift the door at the site, an appeals court has found in setting aside a ruling against the company.