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  • Routine tasks not posing foreseeable risk of injury

    Rudd v Starbucks Coffee Company (Australia) Pty Ltd [2015] QDC 232, 22 September 2015. In this case the District Court found the employer not be in breach of its duty to its employees.

    6 April 2018

  • Employers need to enforce workers to wear PPE

    Tomkins v Kemp Meats Pty Ltd [2013] QDC 184 17 July 2013. For employers, the case serves as an important reminder on the need to enforce the requirement for workers to wear personal protective equipment.

    1 July 2015

  • Transit Australia Group

    Through the IPaM program, Transit Australia Group identified strategies to improve safety and reduce associated costs and impacts on the business.

    1 July 2015

  • Relationship between two separate injuries

    Hartin v Rigel Constructions Pty Ltd [2013] QSC 320 21 November 2013. The case turned upon the extent to which the first incident caused the derangement of the vertebral disc, and the relationship between the injury sustained in the first and second incident, and the loss and damage caused by the first incident.

    1 July 2015

  • Employers must provide safe work system

    Caird v State of Queensland, 30 July 2004. Negligence in enforcing a safe system of work can result in substantial compensation, regardless of the significant long term effects. An abattoir case study.

    1 July 2015

  • No obligation to warn of obvious risk

    Heywood v Commercial Electrical Pty Ltd [2013] QSC 52, 11 March 2013. The duty imposed on employers is to take reasonable care to avoid injury to workers. An employer does not have an obligation to avoid all risks by all reasonably affordable means. The obviousness of the risk and a reasonable expectation that workers will take care of their own safety must be taken into account.

    1 July 2015

  • Prior injuries and future economic loss

    Symons v The Haggarty Group Pty Ltd, 23 March 2011. This case study highlights how the court may consider if there was a reasonable way the employer could have avoided the risk of injury, and how this may affect the outcome.

    1 July 2015

  • Employer not negligent in worker injury

    Campbell v Galaxy Plumbing [2013] QSC 315 18 November 2013. There was no evidence that the task was so physically demanding that it could not be performed by one man who was also carrying out a variety of other jobs. The employer’s failure to provide more labourers was not negligent.

    1 July 2015

  • Connecting safety and culture - getting started: Carlton & United Breweries (CUB), Yatala

    At CUB Yatala Brewery, safety leadership starts at the top and is visible at all levels of the company. Key components of the company’s approach are an authentic value around safety, employee engagement, and integration of safety into business practice.

    7 April 2020

  • Queensland Museum Network: Health and wellbeing at work

    The Queensland Museum Network (QMN) is a statutory authority of Arts Queensland. It provides museum services throughout the state, employing approximately 315 staff across five sites.

    26 September 2018

  • All known injuries need to be the subject of assessment

    Costello v Queensland Rail [2014] QSC 83 16 May 2014 This case provides an analysis of the rights of an individual to damages separate and distinct from their rights under the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003.

    1 July 2015

  • Damages awarded to former mining employee

    Martin v Golding Contractors Pty Ltd [2014] QSC 053 27 March 2014. In this case, while liability was admitted, the amount of damages was in dispute.

    1 July 2015