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An employer that denied a truck driver procedural fairness when it sacked him for repeatedly speeding was a large enough company to have developed proper policies for dismissing employees, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An employer that failed to assign a spotter for a hazardous task has been convicted of OHS breaches, with the NSW District Court yesterday rejecting its claim that a worker's injury wasn't foreseeable because a similar incident had never occurred.

• Five options flagged for WA safety laws;
  
• New WHS regulations postponed in Queensland;
  
• Tasmania's safest employers and workers announced; and
  
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A worker who was repeatedly groped by her director has been awarded $733,000 in damages, after the NSW District Court found her employer exposed her to serious and immediate danger in failing to act on her complaints.

An injured worker has been denied compensation after a Tasmanian tribunal found that his job, hereditary factors, ageing, previous incidents and recreational activities all might have contributed to his degenerative back condition.

A new European report has outlined how employers in a highly hazardous industry have reduced workers' exposure to violence, infectious diseases and other risks.

An employer's claim that a permanently injured worker could perform locksmith work or a similar "light" role has been rejected in the Victorian County Court.

A worker who believes his poor health arose from his employer's "malevolently motivated micromanagement" of him has been denied a stop-bullying order.

White-collar workers are more likely than their blue-collar counterparts to suffer thoracic spine pain, French researchers have found.

• WorkCover embarks on Barangaroo-inspired safety blitz;
  
• Vic employers fined and placed on adjourned undertakings; and
  
• SA employer fined for failing to act on identified chemical hazard.