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Should employers stop conducting toolbox talks? How can safety professionals market the "caring" aspect of safety to an employer? How can employers get workers in the one place to discuss safety? These questions and more are answered here.

• Two more model WHS Codes replaced by guidance material;
  
• Qld promises presumptive cancer compensation for firefighters; and
  
• SA transitioning away from Workers Compensation Tribunal.

• "Injured" worker convicted of fraud after driving racing cars;
  
• Seasonal workers must be covered by workers' comp insurance; and
  
• Comcare releases workers' comp guides for employees and supervisors.

• Fatalities highlight need for individual JSAs;
  
• Forklift complaints in log book ignored prior to death; and
  
• Anti-bullying claims rate falls despite recent prediction.

Chronic pain affects one in three people and has a "profound" impact on the workplace, but a major study of nearly 35,000 workers has found that supervisors who create trusting environments can significantly reduce recurring pain among subordinates.

The FWC has dismissed an anti-bullying application in another case involving an alleged victim whose employment was terminated after applying to the Commission.

Legislation that allows injured workers to appeal against AAT decisions only on questions of law isn't unconstitutional, a full Federal Court has ruled in a 20-year-old dispute.

An injured worker with a history of falling from office furniture, including while hanging Christmas decorations, has been denied compensation for permanent impairment.

Too few workplace health and safety professionals are trained in how to design and introduce prevention programs to tackle health risks, international researchers have found.

Employers are being urged to assess whether their work processes are encouraging employees to break safety rules, after a Safe Work Australia report found a link between risk taking and high fatality and injury rates.