A worker has failed to obtain stop-bullying orders against a colleague who, in a "single outburst", threatened him and told him he wasn't welcome in the workplace or at an upcoming work dinner.
A worker's "cruel and menacing" comments about a co-worker, in a private Teams chat with a third colleague, posed a "serious and imminent risk to the safety of the co-worker", a commission has ruled.
A worker who told a meeting he would "slit" the throat of a colleague if he was forced to work with him again, has been denied compensation for a psychological injury, after a tribunal found his condition was aggravated by reasonable administrative action taken in respect of the threat.
A commission has called out a major employer's "troubling" reliance on its customer violence de-escalation policies in dismissing a worker drawn into a scuffle with a member of the public, finding the strategy's core aspects "simply did not apply" to the incident that unfolded.
PCBUs have been reminded of their WHS duties to children, after one entity was fined over a drowning death and another over a forklift joyride. Meanwhile, the ACT has launched a campaign against workplace violence, and reminded employers of the new WHS duty to report "actual or suspected" incidents of workplace s-xual assault.
A worker has failed to prove on appeal that his employer was vicariously liable for another worker's actions in pointing a gun at his head, which caused his post-traumatic stress disorder.