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When a labourer slid and fell on the slippery deck of a construction site, his damages claim triggered the host employer’s attempts to shift the blame. Read the Supreme Court’s take on it.

When a subcontractor’s employee was injured on a building site and the builder and subcontractor were hit with massive damages bills, the builder appealed. Read why the Court rejected the builder’s claims.

What standards do you need to comply with regarding space and lighting for office workers?

The report sheds light on the characteristics and trends in workers’ experience of psychosocial hazards and mental health conditions in Australian workplaces.

When a brick wall fell on a young man at a building site, impaling him on a large metal screw piling, his employer’s sole director found himself in the firing line. Read the court’s view of the site’s poor safety record.

When a stack of gyprock fell on a carpenter, a court found his lifelong disabilities were caused by the employer’s negligence in storing gyprock sheets vertically, and awarded the carpenter $650K in damages.

A company has copped a record $2.1 million fine for recklessly engaging in conduct that placed a person in danger of serious injury.

SafeWork NSW's Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work aims to promote mentally healthy workplaces in NSW.

A failure to supervise or ensure compliance with safe systems of work on roofs catapulted a roofer into a concrete driveway and landed the builder in court.

One of the simplest and most useful methods of managing manual handling risks is the SAFER approach.