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Employers are being advised to establish a "workplace heat alert system", after Australian researchers found occupational heat illness claims increase by nearly 13 per cent for every one-degree rise in temperature during hot conditions.

Workplace falls were the main cause of fatalities in the construction industry over the 12 years to 2013-14, with falls from roofs and ladders causing more than half of the deaths, according to a new Safe Work Australia report.

• James Hardie profit shows it can compensate asbestos victims; and
  
• Mesothelioma death rate reaches record high.

• Cancer "time bomb" identified in workers' comp study; and
  
• UN decision on white asbestos was "farcical", says AMWU.

Negative psychosocial safety climates are significantly related to workers suffering musculoskeletal disorders and claiming workers' compensation, Australian researchers have found.

Major legislative changes occurred in all nine Australian jurisdictions in the first quarter of 2015. This article examines these and other developments in work health and safety and workers' compensation.

The Federal Government's SRC Amendment Bill will allow "unscrupulous" single-state employers to qualify for self-insurance under Comcare - and escape the more rigorous WHS requirements of other schemes - by, for example, setting up a one-person office in a second jurisdiction, according to a new report.

A major French study has found some psychosocial risk factors are significantly associated with work accidents and injuries.

Ambulance officers and paramedics are more likely than most other workers to suffer mental and musculoskeletal injuries, and their workers' comp claim rates are increasing, Australian researchers have found.

The workers' compensation schemes in five jurisdictions will be amended, and employer premiums increased, under one of the Federal Government's preferred options for ensuring catastrophically injured workers are supported for life.