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An employer's regular toolbox talks and safety presentations proved a dismissed worker would have been aware of the company's OHS procedures and was rightly sacked for ignoring them, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A young worker who died after being left to operate a forklift alone in an industrial freezer hadn't received OHS or forklift training, the NSW Coroner has found.

A worker who suffered psychological injuries after being sacked because his weight posed a safety risk - to himself and other employees - was injured by reasonable management action, the Queensland IRC has ruled.

Western Australia's proposed mirror WHS laws for the resources sector should include a duty of care at worker accommodation facilities, suicide-specific provisions and a special Code of Practice that addresses rosters, fatigue and bullying, the parliamentary inquiry into FIFO arrangements has recommended.

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• WorkSafe Victoria appoints CEO and launches claims app; and
  
• ACT Bill amends workers' comp Act and other legislation.

The first step in making leaders accountable for workplace safety is holding focus groups and asking them what the stupidest things they've been told to do are, a recent OHS Alert webinar heard.

The head of the Fair Work Commission's anti-bullying panel has found the Commission can only make "formal orders" referring bullying incidents to a WHS regulator if the alleged victim faces ongoing work health and safety risks.

It was "glaringly improbable" an employer knew a worker had PTSD before sacking him for failing to undertake a competency assessment, the Federal Court has found in partially upholding the employer's adverse action appeal and reducing the man's $100,000 award.

Workers who are underweight are likely to be less productive than healthy, overweight, or even severely obese workers, a major UK study has found.

A worker was sacked because she was "a potential danger to herself and others", and not, as the worker claimed, because she exercised her workplace right to report OHS issues, the Fair Work Commission has found.