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• Workers prosecuted for risking colleagues' safety;
  
• Employer fined after learner driver of faulty truck hits worker;
  
• Duty holders urged to ditch or modify unsafe quad bikes; and
  
• NSW and Qld issue chemical and fire alerts.

One of the first companies to participate in a NSW Government workplace health and wellbeing program encouraged its less-healthy employees to change their lifestyles by giving them a "reality check".

Workplace drug testing programs that rely on both urine and saliva samples provide a far superior deterrent against illicit drug use than single-method regimes, according to a Fair Work Commissioner.

A NSW worker has failed to convince a judge that his employer is vicariously liable for the actions of a woman who injured his back while he performed first aid.

• WA announces record-low WorkCover premiums;
  
• GP trial to speed up RTW process;
  
• Sun safety doesn't end with autumn, says WorkCover Qld; and
  
• NSW issues drowning alert.

Four companies have been ordered to pay a worker damages, after he was injured when he fell from an unfenced work platform, and sustained further injuries while travelling home from a related medical appointment.

Governments are being warned against making "brutal cuts" to their workers' comp schemes as the workforce ages, while WorkCover Queensland has outlined how to improve the health and safety of older workers.

• Warning on fake safety documents extended in WA;
  
• Safety inspectors looking for kids at NSW construction sites; and
  
• SafeWork issues fatality alert and height advice.

NSW Labor will double WorkCover's inspectorate, return safety prosecutions to the Industrial Court and enact special anti-bullying laws if it defies the polls to win this Saturday's State election.

Demand for safety professionals in the resources sector is plummeting, but it's increasing in some industries, and has soared by more than 40 per cent in two states, according to a safety recruitment expert.