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Three companies subjected to WHS improvement and prohibition notices relating to ride restraints have lost their appeals against a recent decision to maintain the notices. A tribunal full bench acknowledged errors in the initial decision, but found safety remained the higher priority.

A government employer's interpretation of the obligation to provide injured workers with "suitable employment" could result in a worker's entitlement to such work ending "upon the completion of the shift in which the workplace injury occurred", a tribunal full bench has found.

• Bullying and harassment victims get new reporting avenue; and
  
• Injury premiums up in SA, amendments thanked for limiting increase.

Three companies subjected to WHS improvement and prohibition notices relating to ride restraints have failed to stay the operation of the notices, with a tribunal finding the potential loss of revenue does not outweigh the safety risks.

An employer was entitled to cease income support payments to an injured worker, a tribunal has ruled, finding she breached her "obligation of mutuality" by engaging in serious misconduct, which included disclosing a director's alleged gambling problem to a subcontractor.

• UV-related WHS duties apply on cloudy days;
  
• Older workplace buildings targeted in SA asbestos blitz; and
  
• Old workplace safety Code revoked in WA.

This major user-friendly report looks back at all the major and most interesting workplace safety and compensation developments from the start of the calendar year, including the ministerial vote on industrial manslaughter, multiple manslaughter charges, the widespread introduction of new psychosocial risk regulations, and a major WHS case involving the deaths of overseas students.

A superior court has quashed a decision acquitting a worker of recklessly contributing to a fatal crushing, ruling that the requisite test for a guilty verdict was whether the worker foresaw it was possible, rather than probable, that a death would occur.

OHS Alert has been given an exclusive look at new Australian research that is using thermal heat mapping technology to develop a comprehensive heat management strategy for outdoor workers.

• Company officer charged with bullying and causing breaches;
  
• First anti-harassment audit completed in mining campaign; and
  
• Injury fraudster sentenced after probe into ambulance calls.