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A tribunal has found that while workplace factors only made up one-tenth of the contributing factors to a worker's psychological condition, his employment was still a "significant" contributor.

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.

• PCBUs told how to comply with new WHS-stye positive duty; and
  
• Workers' comp Bill covers female-specific diseases in Vic.

Most Australian employers in a high-hazard industry are aware of the need to train workers on WHS issues like harassment and bullying, but many deliver this training through single, isolated sessions that are known to have little impact, a series of workshops and interviews with safety professionals has found.

• WHS regulator targeting numerous NSW businesses;
  
• Key WHS measure for Cth parliamentary workplaces introduced; and
  
• WHS Regulations amended in WA.

In an ongoing case involving a worker claiming she was bullied by being barred from working from home, a court has clarified when a person has a workplace right to expect their employer to comply with the Fair Work Act's anti-bullying provisions.

An employer has successfully argued it did not unfairly dismiss an absent worker after an independent medical examination (IME) found "malignant resentment" prevented her from ever being fit to return.

A worker who claims she was bullied through her managers withholding resources like work cars from her, and excluding her from social events, has been denied stop-bullying orders.

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

A worker's "cruel and menacing" comments about a co-worker, in a private Teams chat with a third colleague, posed a "serious and imminent risk to the safety of the co-worker", a commission has ruled.