OHS

It is workers, not employers, who overwhelmingly bear the costs of workplace injuries and diseases, a new report has shown. The report by Safe Work Australia revealed that three-quarters of the costs of workplace injuries and diseases is borne by the injured workers themselves, including loss of current and future income and non-compensated medical expenses.

Further to the recent case in Italy, there has been another victory for asbestos victims: Uralita, a Spanish asbestos company has been found guilty for not protecting workers in Getafe (Madrid) from asbestos exposure and condemned to pay out 1.7 million euros.

A court in Turin has sentenced Stephan Schmidheiny and Jean Louis de Cartier to 16 years in the Eternit asbestos trial. The defendants were found guilty of environmental disaster and wilful omission of safety precautions.