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Allowing work emails to be sent after hours or mismanaging structural change can contribute to mentally unhealthy work environments, the chair of the Mental Health Council of Australia has warned.

WA employer fined after poorly trained foreign worker killed; Fines for building-defect breaches increased 10-fold in ACT; and Tasmanian safety regulators going through transformation.

Origin has reduced its total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR) by 32 per cent in 18 months by requiring workers to follow 11 "life-saving rules", according to the energy company's HSE general manager.

Director sacked worker with cancer to avoid sick-leave bill; Mine Safety Commissioner issues special alert after spate of deaths; and Collision, explosion and other incidents prompt new alerts and guides.

The NSW Dust Diseases Tribunal has awarded a mesothelioma sufferer $350,000 in general damages, effectively increasing the maximum level of such damages by more than 20 per cent.

Multi-state employers should determine what the workers' comp schemes in different jurisdictions have in common to make it easier to manage injuries, says Aon Hewitt's people risk consulting services director.

A NSW employer has successfully defended an OHS charge, after the District Court found its failure to document a risk assessment didn't constitute a breach. Also in this article, a man has been fined under the new national maritime safety laws - for jumping ship.

Determining whether injuries sustained by a worker during a work trip are compensable "used to be very easy" - until the motel-s-x case, says Lander and Rogers special counsel Rachel Cubela.

The Federal Government's termination of Safe Work Australia member grants will diminish the ability of unions and employer groups to improve workplace safety, a Labor Senator has warned. Meanwhile, the Coalition's plan to amend the new anti-bullying laws has been omitted from it first tranche of Fair Work changes, introduced yesterday.

A high proportion of the 70-odd workers who have applied for stop-bullying orders so far claim they are being bullied by their supervisors, but the Fair Work Act's broad definition of "reasonable management action" could thwart many of these claims, according to FW Commissioner Anna Lee Cribb.