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Mining employers have a range of options - under their fatigue and drug-testing policies - for improving workplace health and safety, including banning otherwise legal substances, the Queensland Mines Inspectorate has advised.

Fair Work Australia has upheld the summary dismissal of a Bunnings employee who allegedly threatened to shoot a customer services manager and was arrested by police at work.

Drunk and violent safety manager fails to overturn dismissal; and Regulators issue alerts after explosion deaths and other incidents.

SWA urged to keep non-core drug testing rules out of mining Regulations; Reports on reducing risks of laser printer emissions released; and SafeWork SA investigating manufacturing death.

WorkCover NSW and WorkSafe Victoria have clarified the alarming cost of workers' compensation claims for stress, industrial deafness and musculoskeletal disorders, and outlined what they plan to do to help employers reduce them.

The ACT will retain its "strong" regulations on hazardous chemicals and asbestos, and could become the first jurisdiction to establish a specialised inspectorate to deal with workplace bullying, when the harmonised safety regime takes effect.

Fair Work Australia has upheld a mining company's bid to continue testing workers' urine for drugs and alcohol, after it found the reliability of saliva testing was questionable.

A Queensland employer that failed to respond to an employee's "reasonable suspicions" that his co-workers were under the influence of alcohol has been ordered to compensate him for a psychological injury.

A Western Australian employer's attempt to make a new finance manager "fit in" through mentoring was so mishandled it plunged him into a state of severe depression, a tribunal has found in awarding him compensation.

Employer without strict alcohol policy loses dismissal case; and Quad bike training package to tackle high death toll.