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A commission has rejected a worker's claim that her superior expected her to work up to 60 hours a week and bullied her through excessive work requirements.

A union investigating suspected violence- and workload-related WHS contraventions failed to comply with requirements of the WHS Act and Regulation when it sought employee records while exercising its entry rights, a commissioner has found.

Unsafe workplace layouts, and training and first-aid failings, were among the WHS issues that attracted improvement notices in a major compliance project targeting violence and aggression in a hazardous industry.

An employer is creating mutually respectful relationships between workers and clients with initiatives such as a code of conduct for the latter, to curb the psychological harm from escalating customer aggression, its general manager of people and culture says.

Work acceleration and cognitive dissonance are some of the workplace health and safety challenges that need to be managed when using artificial intelligence in the workplace, a future of work academic says.

With National Safe Work Month starting this week, employers are being urged to host SafeTea chats, focus on issues like mental health and workloads, and provide safer workplaces for women. Employers have also been warned to properly maintain their defibrillators.

• One regulator charges another with recklessness after suicide;
  
• Host fined $350k over fatal impalement of labour-hire worker; and
  
• New national dangerous goods Code taking effect in Vic.

Workers are at high risk of developing long-term mental health problems like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression when exposed to trauma, morally injurious events and institutional betrayal, which often involves organisational inaction, a study has found.

• New work safety laws and codes to follow major explosion;
  
• Two new WHS Codes of Practice made in ACT; and
  
• Roll-away alert quickly followed by serious roll-away incident.

A commission has refused a worker stop-bullying orders in a case providing "lessons" on change management failures, which previously led to an organisation losing an adverse action case and being handed a $12,000 penalty.