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An employer might have provided workers with safety stools to help them reach high objects, but the pace of the work and the scarceness of the stools meant they couldn't be used practically, a court has found in awarding a worker more than $800,000 in damages for a manual handling injury.

A worker who injured her back while lifting heavy trays has been awarded nearly $160,000 in damages, after a court found her employer negligently failed to provide proper manual handling training or enforce a 10kg lifting limit.

An organisation in an industry with unique physical and emotional hazards is designing out manual handling tasks and improving workers' psychological health through research projects and other strategies, its executive general manager of health, safety and sustainability has revealed.

• Employer cherry-picked expert's workplace injury report; and
  
• "Long COVID" support service launched in Tas.

A worker, who accused his employer of negligence, has been denied permission to pursue a second damages claim, after a judge found his second injury arose out of the same circumstances he relied on in his first, dismissed application.

A national employer's decision to deny compensation to a worker, who claimed his shoulder was injured by an awkward manual task, has been affirmed by a tribunal, which found he provided an "incorrect history" to doctors and changed his story to suit his post-termination case.

Older workers involved in a workplace "senior program" had a 60 per cent lower risk of early disability retirement, a study has shown. The authors say employers can avoid extensive sick leave by promoting strategies to maintain work ability and prevent musculoskeletal pain.

A company has been granted permission to challenge a $237,000 damages award and ruling that it negligently contributed to a worker's injury, with an appeals court finding the trial judge failed to address the central issue of whether the worker was actually directed to perform the injury-causing task.

• "How to lift" training doesn't satisfy injury prevention duties; and
  
• Major workers' compensation comparison report released.

A judge has granted a worker permission to pursue damages for pain and suffering caused by a crush injury incurred in his employment back in 2011, dismissing a regulator's contention it could be inferred, from surveillance footage of equipment on his vehicle and other factors, that his claims weren't credible.