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A worker sacked for falling asleep on a high-risk job has unsuccessfully argued that his cough medicine made him drowsy and his dismissal was unfair. Meanwhile, the CSIRO has been fined $7,500 for taking adverse action against an injured worker through the actions of a senior HSE manager.

• WHS regulations amended in two jurisdictions; and
  
• Three priority industries dominate fatality toll.

• Workplace manslaughter and "crime scene" package launched;
  
• Fatigue tests trialled as truck fatalities surge; and
  
• PCBU and director charged over apprentice's electrocution.

The readiness of businesses to accept the lowest transport rates without safety considerations has "deadly" consequences for transport workers, a major occupational health meeting has heard.

Employers should look beyond trying to design the "perfect" roster to eliminate sleep-related worker fatigue, and focus on risk assessment, awareness training and the "four F's", according to a leading circadian biology researcher.

Poor sleep quality among shift workers increases their appetite and leads them to make unhealthy dietary choices, increasing their risk of obesity, an analysis of sleep cycles shows.

• Coroner dismisses fatigue link to post-shift fatality; and
  
• Safest and healthiest employers announced in WA.

• Identify and control workplace methamphetamine risks;
  
• Dust blitz includes surprise visits, WHS notice blocks vehicle use; and
  
• Mobile scaffold warning issued after fatality.

A commission has upheld the dismissal of a worker sacked for failing to report a microsleep incident and preserve the scene, who argued he was not required to do so because he didn't believe any injury or damage occurred.

A PCBU has entered a $200,000 undertaking, in lieu of prosecution relating to the death of a customer's employee, in a case that examined the temporal and geographical limitations of the WHS duty to "other persons".