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Heat-related illnesses and respiratory syndromes in workers are two direct outcomes of climate change that require special mitigation and adaptation strategies, a peak occupational medicine group has warned.

Carrying out strenuous tasks that weren't within the scope of his usual duties contributed to a worker falling asleep on his drive home from work and made his serious journey injuries compensable, a commission has found.

Police have vowed to crack down on unsafe companies, after issuing more than 2,000 defect notices and detecting 26 drug-affected truck drivers in Australia's "largest ever" heavy vehicle compliance operation. They have also raised serious health and safety concerns over the large-scale transport of NSW waste to Queensland.

• Another employer charged with category 2 breaches;
  
• NSW introduces two-stage approach to WHS EU applications; and
  
• "Personal use" fatigue exemption commences today.

A repeat offender's work health and safety fine has been more than doubled on appeal, with a superior court finding the consequences of its breaches could have been catastrophic.

• Hazardous industries warned of maintenance "blind spot";
  
• Fatigue findings apply to multiple industries; and
  
• NSW regulators issue fatality alerts and prohibition notice.

Asking workers simple questions about stress through text messages can predict exhaustion and sick leave, European researchers have found.

A psychologist has outlined 10 ways to get a better night's sleep, with sleep deprivation affecting two in five Australians, and causing hundreds of industrial and road deaths a year.

• Uber driver charged over fatality after 21-hour shift;
  
• Long-awaited WHS Code approved by Commonwealth; and
  
• New WHS centre kicks off with crane and health projects.

Swedish researchers have conducted a world-first study on the link between how workers actually spend their free time during work-hour-reduction interventions and improved long-term health and work performance.