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A leading legal expert on technology and the workplace has warned of the WHS risks and implications of using "bossware" to track workers' productivity, including that it can trigger cease-work orders under safety laws.

• WHS prosecutions promised, other initiatives having little impact;
  
• Fatigue and remote-work alerts issued after fatalities, violence; and
  
• WHS consultation and s-x work Codes amended and made in ACT.

Unsafe job demands are the most common psychosocial hazards in Australian workplaces, and employers must explore multiple measures to safeguard against the risk to a reasonably practicable extent, a Comcare director says.

A tribunal has thrown out a joint bid by 145 workers to overturn their employer's vaccine mandate by claiming it involved WHS consultation flaws. The tribunal stressed that the feedback process in such circumstances enables "contribution", not "collaboration".

• Complying with WHS consultation duties in outsourcing set-ups; and
  
• Allegedly unsafe chair attracts workplace safety charge.

• SWA updates WHS consultation checklist; and
  
• Worker quashes inappropriate-banter fine with CCTV evidence.

A case involving a "chaotic" workplace visit and suspected safety contraventions has provided a first-of-its-kind examination of whether WHS laws allow entry permit holders to consult with workers in private.

Two PCBUs have been handed pre-discount fines totalling $460,000 for their involvement in the death of a delivery driver. One of the PCBUs failed to comply with its consultation duties, which could have been satisfied through a simple email enquiry, a judge ruled.

• Lendlease fined over exclusion-zone failure;
  
• Early planning and consultation urged after crane fatality; and
  
• Injury premiums up again in Qld.

A union's safety concerns over an employer's attempt to make pre-shift meetings more efficient by moving them nearly a kilometre underground have been deemed "speculative" by a commission, which has also issued a WHS order to the employer.