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A Queensland employer has entered a $339,500 enforceable undertaking - even though a fine would have cost it far less - after one of its workers injured his wrist while using a power tool.

South Australia's Industrial Relations Minister Bernard Finnigan has today resigned from Cabinet after just two months on the job.

Company managers should be trained to "shape" and support workplace climates where bullying and destructive conflict are unlikely to occur, according to a new guide from the Victorian State Services Authority (SSA).

Employers must not adopt a "narrow" view of the hazards they are obliged to address, a Queensland judge has ruled in upholding a safety fine issued after a teenage gymnast's death.

A South Australian employer that failed to prevent a worker - who was on restricted duties and affected by alcohol - from performing a risky task has been fined, after the worker was nearly killed.

A Queensland court has reversed a decision to award $500,000 to a lone worker who was assaulted by an elderly customer, after finding her employer was entitled to regard the risk as "singularly slight".

Industrial manslaughter laws unlikely for Western Australia; and Western Australian workers' comp premiums to rise.

A South Australian judge has found a host employer's system for storing hazardous material was safe, in rejecting an injured worker's damages claim.

An engineer who was required to attend a work-related dinner - where alcoholic drinks were served - and failed a urine test the following morning was rightly dismissed, Fair Work Australia has ruled.

Safe Work Australia chair Tom Phillips has hit back at claims the draft model Work Health and Safety Regulations are too complex and long, saying employers are only required to be up to speed on provisions that are relevant to their business.