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  • Case study

    Employer not liable where no breach of duty or causation can be established

    Durkin v Ambrose Haulage Pty Ltd [2020] QDC 97. A truck driver alleged that he suffered bilateral shoulder injuries which he attributed to driving long distance in trucks with deteriorated suspension/shock absorbers.

    2 June 2020
  • Case study

    Russell Transport: Mental health initiative

    The long hours that drivers spend on the road by themselves, the remote locations they travel to and the time spent away from family, can sometimes lead to poor relationships, feelings of isolation, stress and depression. The management team at Russell Transport felt it was important to work with staff to manage these risk factors.

    26 September 2018
  • Case study

    Employer found liable for a lumbar spine injury

    The plaintiff suffered an injury to her lumbar spine while lifting a load from a low pallet to a sheft on 28 April 2019.

    6 December 2022
  • Case study

    Russell Transport: Fighting the flu

    Drivers at Russell Transport often work independently, constantly moving in and out of offices and interacting with people from all walks of life at multiple workplaces and delivery destinations.

    1 July 2015
  • Case study

    Court imposes very high duty on Employers

    Beven v Brisbane Youth Service Inc [2017] QCA 211 22 September 2017. There is a very strict duty on employers who provide services to high risk clients, to take reasonable precautions, including the decline of services, in order to protect their staff.

    15 June 2018
  • Video

    When an employer will be found liable for workplace related injuries

    Guest presenter Bruce Thomas of BTLawyers discusses when an employer will be found liable for workplace related injuries and presents recent cases from the State Courts and QIRC.

    13 February 2020
  • Video

    I love you, Dad – The Dale Kennedy story

    I love you, Dad shares a family’s heartbreak after their son Dale Kennedy’s preventable death while working in a school's ceiling space.

    8 September 2022
  • Case study

    Employer not liable for slip on grape

    As outlined in our case study, the appellant was a school teacher employed by Riverside Christian College. In 2015, she sustained injuries to her left knee when she slipped on a grape when walking in a foyer area between classrooms.

    5 June 2019
  • Case study

    Bus Queensland: Linking with community organisations – a low cost health and wellbeing program

    Bus Queensland employs approximately 400 people at four depots and provides urban, school and charter bus services to the Park Ridge, Ipswich, Laidley and Toowoomba districts.

    26 September 2018
  • Video

    High risk work assessor portal – Creating and nominating an assessment event notification

    This instructional video shows you how to create a new assessment event notification (AEN) and how to nominate an AEN to an assessor in the high risk work assessor portal.

    12 April 2021
  • Case study

    Worker's fall did not cause consequential symptoms

    Beardmore v Crown Equipment Pty Ltd [2012] QDC, 3 October 2012. This is a case where the court found there was a fall at work, there was negligence but the fall did not cause consequential symptoms.

    1 July 2015
  • Case study

    Third parties to provide insurance

    Hodge v CSR Limited, 2 February 2010. Third parties may have to provide insurance for employees when it can be shown the injury was caused by a change to the system of work that could not be detected on inspection of the premises prior to injury by the employer.

    1 July 2015