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An OHS manager "undermined the integrity" of his company's pre-employment process by overriding a doctor's finding that a prospective employee could safely perform a role, but didn't breach equal opportunity laws, a tribunal has found.

• Fair Work Bill passes without repealing workers' comp accruals;
  
• Qld adopts recommendation for WHS Amendment Bill; and
  
• Qld streamlines application process for high-risk work licences.

A worker's dismissal for fighting was harsh given his employer's history of tolerating "foul language" from both managers and employees, the Fair Work Commission has found.

• Court blames injured worker for toxic environment; and
  
• Link found between work noise and coronary heart disease.

The Federal Court has rejected a union's bid to take photos of suspected safety contraventions at a workplace, in an ongoing dispute about entry laws and the meaning of "premises".

An employer has cut its injury rate by 20 per cent in a year through a critical risk management program that includes controlling risk controls and "escalation factors".

A commissioner has censured an employer for sacking a worker over a "serious" safety incident when it hadn't even conducted a risk assessment of the relevant task.

An employer directly discriminated against an injured worker when it sacked him for being unable to perform the inherent requirements of his role without accurately determining what that role actually was, a tribunal has found.

An employer has been ordered to pay nearly $12,000 to a worker it sacked for breaching its drug and alcohol policy, after the Fair Work Commission found it unfairly gave him a first and final warning for failing to tag-out a machine eight months earlier.

• Employer misapplied Fair Work clause when sacking sick worker; and
  
• Seventh jurisdiction joins national rail safety regime.