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Through a scoping review, a group of researchers have identified the three most effective intervention methods to help reduce the negative impacts of workplace violence.

A dysfunctional working relationship did not involve bullying exposing a worker to safety risks, a commission has found in rejecting the worker's bid for stop-bullying orders.

• Bullying and harassment victims get new reporting avenue; and
  
• Injury premiums up in SA, amendments thanked for limiting increase.

An employer breached its duty of care by failing to protect a worker from recrimination after he "dobbed" on a supervisor who assaulted him, a court has found, noting the employer's own policies foresaw the risk of psychological injury in such circumstances.

A worker who claimed she was fired for exercising her workplace rights, under health and safety laws, has had her adverse action claim denied, with a court finding she was terminated for performance and disciplinary issues.

While changing a worker's driving routes during the COVID-19 pandemic might have constituted reasonable management action, it was not the sole cause of the driver's adjustment disorder, an appeals commission has ruled, in upholding an earlier finding that the driver is totally incapacitated.

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".

• 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.

A commissioner has criticised a major employer's "tick and flick" training on its safety and conduct policies, but stressed that workers should not need a training course to know when certain actions are wrong, in unfair dismissal rulings involving members of a Facebook group sharing explicit materials.