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Businesses and public authorities covered by the Commonwealth jurisdiction's WHS laws could soon face the toughest WHS penalties in the country, under a major amendment Bill that will also introduce presumptive workers' compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder.

• Complying with WHS consultation duties in outsourcing set-ups; and
  
• Allegedly unsafe chair attracts workplace safety charge.

• Employer fined $320k over reversing-vehicle breach and death;
  
• SWA launches stats site with case study, flags WHS changes; and
  
• Fair Work amendments to protect FDV victims from discrimination.

A worker who felt undue pressure to perform tasks beyond her work restrictions, after her post-surgery return-to-work plan was not communicated to management, has successfully argued she has compensable a psychological injury.

• Recklessness fine followed by site-preservation conviction; and
  
• Refugee advocates concerned by developments in WHS cases.

The Department of Defence breached WHS laws by failing to prohibit workers from swimming in crocodile-inhabited waters, in the lead up to two soldiers being attacked by a 2.5-metre saltwater crocodile, a prosecutor has alleged.

A Defence member who fell from a ladder while working has been denied compensation for the aggravation of his vertigo-related disease, with a tribunal ruling it could not be classified as a "service disease".

• SWA updates WHS consultation checklist; and
  
• Worker quashes inappropriate-banter fine with CCTV evidence.

A worker who told a meeting he would "slit" the throat of a colleague if he was forced to work with him again, has been denied compensation for a psychological injury, after a tribunal found his condition was aggravated by reasonable administrative action taken in respect of the threat.

• SWA outlines work-from-home duties in new resources;
  
• Model WHS amendments for silica applied in SA; and
  
• Paid FDV leave extended to many workers.