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Employers have been reminded of their WHS duties to pregnant and parent workers, and urged to make ergonomic adjustments where needed, after a major project found these workers continue to face "vast discrimination, disadvantage, and bias".

A full Federal Court has granted Comcare another chance to dispute liability for a worker's 45-year-old injury, agreeing that critical medical evidence showing his condition might have been "normal" by the mid-1980s was overlooked by a decision maker.

A worker who allegedly slipped on a soapy floor with no "wet floor signs" has been permitted to a sue a major employer for damages, with a court finding the employer's bid to block her case wasn't helped by a policy of overwriting CCTV footage every two weeks.

A major law firm is targeting body, mind, culture and place through a holistic wellbeing program with strategies ranging from "desk stretch cards" to vicarious trauma training, and its employees are reaping the rewards with reductions in depression, stress and anxiety.

A "critical and insensitive" manager who routinely swore at his subordinates in an attempt to motivate them to meet purported "German demands" has lost his adverse action case, with a court finding his behaviour warranted instant dismissal and he wasn't the victim of WHS breaches.

• Safety fines doubled to $10m under NSW asbestos Bill;
  
• Industrial manslaughter promised ahead of Tas election;
  
• Manslaughter jailings needed, says union after Vic fatality; and
  
• Ten WHS Codes amended for GHS 7 in SA.

Eating badly can be as bad for workers' alertness and safety outcomes as sleep deprivation, according to a leading dietitian who urges employers to "make the healthy choice the easy choice" in workplaces.

Another employer has been fined for workplace health and safety breaches affecting children, with its failures including not maintaining a safe supervision ratio of employees to customers.

An employer has overturned, in the Federal Court, a finding that a worker aggravated a 17-year-old work injury, by arguing there must be "an injury to be aggravated".

Disingenuous attempts by companies to curb s-xual harassment in response to increased attention on the matter are damaging the chances for change, according to the latest instalment of a landmark Australian study.