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A commission has upheld the dismissal of a worker for taking medicinal cannabis on his days off, finding his conduct was compounded by his failure to update his employer on his changing medicinal regime.

• Counterfeit components endanger workers;
  
• Ignored SDSs revealed risks that caused injury; and
  
• Organisation charged over vulnerable client's death.

A commission has overturned the dismissal of a worker who neglected to report a near miss until the day after it occurred, highlighting that employers have a responsibility to help workers comply with safety obligations.

• SWA agrees to push for low exposure limit for common carcinogen;
  
• SWA makes hundreds of changes to chemical info system;
  
• WHS guides for pre-2004 buildings and roll-aways released; and
  
• Dreamworld-inspired WHS Code made in Qld.

• Defence faces more WHS charges, this time over two deaths; and
  
• Cancer compensation Bill follows Opposition pressure in Tas.

A dangerous machine's "confusing" control panel, combined with inadequate high- and low-order safety controls, contributed to the crush death of a worker that initiated a string of (ultimately unsuccessful) prosecutions, a coronial inquest has found.

A worker's 18 grounds of appeal against an injury ruling have been dismissed, with a court upholding findings that he was not bullied by his managers and all the cited management actions taken against him were reasonable.

A worker who sustained a permanent impairment from slipping on stairs at his workplace has been denied damages, with a court finding his employer had taken reasonable steps to mitigate the risk of slipping, and the worker had descended the stairs imprudently.

An employer has successfully argued it did not unfairly dismiss an absent worker after an independent medical examination (IME) found "malignant resentment" prevented her from ever being fit to return.

• Recklessness fine followed by site-preservation conviction; and
  
• Refugee advocates concerned by developments in WHS cases.