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A new European report has outlined how employers in a highly hazardous industry have reduced workers' exposure to violence, infectious diseases and other risks.

• Returning expat miners could spread Ebola; and
  
• Paid domestic violence leave flagged for awards review.

A NSW employer is expanding its due diligence program for senior managers as part of a $200,000 WHS enforceable undertaking (EU), which provides valuable insight into the EU process and how the employer tackled height risks.

Employers are being urged to prevent sedentary workers from sitting for prolonged periods, and ensure workplace lighting isn't damaging people's eyes.

Employers can take three simple steps to ensure workers aren't using their mobile phones while walking near mobile plant or in other hazardous situations, says Mark Ritchie of the Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

A global report has outlined eight ways that employers can transform work spaces into "environments that positively encourage health and wellbeing, and stimulate productivity".

Employers should tackle excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) as part of their broader health programs, with hundreds of thousands of Australian workers affected by the condition, researchers have suggested.

BHP Billiton is tackling the risks associated with carcinogenic diesel exhaust by redesigning equipment in consultation with manufacturers, and introducing a combination of high and lower order controls, according to its 2014 sustainability report.

Two workers have successfully argued that they were unfairly dismissed after being accused of using mobile phones while driving vehicles.

Compensation cheat escapes jail, but suspended sentences now abolished; Don't forget about silicosis, warns VWA; Greens motion for firefighters with cancer defeated; and Emergency workers protected by new anti-violence laws.