Senior managers have been sent a health and safety "wake-up call", with the ACT becoming the first jurisdiction to charge an officer under the harmonised WHS laws, following a fatality.
Employers are being warned that workers with gambling problems are at increased risk of disrupting their colleagues, taking more sick leave and being dishonest.
WHS Codes of Practice have been adopted, tweaked or released for comment in Queensland and NSW, while the MUA has slammed a renewed call to scrap the draft WHS Code for stevedoring in the wake of a workplace death.
An upcoming review of South Australia's mirror WHS Act will focus on how often union officials have used their new workplace entry rights, as required by a deal made with "no pokies" MLC John Darley two years ago.
The average office desk has four hundred times more bacteria than a toilet seat and is likely to house the common cold virus, making workers sick, an economic-impact report says.
Husband and wife breached WHS Act after buying chemicals online; WA employer fined in first asbestos-identification prosecution; Bystanders dominate work-related road death toll; and Union predicts high truck-related fatality rate for 2014.
