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• 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.

The Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has illustrated how "incredibly important" it is to foster healthy psychosocial environments at work, according to Comcare's CEO.