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A worker has failed in his renewed bid for compensation for a mental condition blamed on "systemic bullying". He failed to convince the Federal Court a tribunal overlooked a "very clear aggravation-type issue".

The Federal Safety Commissioner's WHS accreditation scheme could be expanded to cover multiple industries, ranging from business management to healthcare services, under plans to improve safety through procurement practices.

• Employers and supervisors told how to reduce harmful injury stigma; and
  
• WHS charges include alleged Australian Standards breach.

Elected health and safety representatives will be specially trained to apply and enforce the new WHS regulations on psychosocial hazards like bullying and poor organisational justice, under the Federal budget's $27.4 million package for improving the "safety and fairness" of workplaces.

• "Swearing" constituted unsafe workplace harassment; and
  
• Workplace safety fraudsters face big fines under rail amendments.

Workplace exposure limits for diesel emissions are likely to be set under the national model WHS laws, with a major Safe Work Australia-commissioned report finding the prevention of diesel-related cancers and other diseases hinges on keeping exposure levels low.

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.

Events for World Day for Safety and Health at Work tomorrow will include a celebration of the International Labour Organisation's recent decision to recognise "a safe and healthy working environment" as a fundamental principle and right at work, and a web discussion on how to practically implement this right.

• Fatality charge coincides with industrial gate warning;
  
• Long-term WHS exemption expiring in NSW; and
  
• Comcare releases Q&A on new psychosocial regulations.