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A PCBU and its director have failed to overturn their WHS recklessness penalties of $500,000 and suspended jail time, with a superior court highlighting the director's failure to exercise due diligence and his high moral culpability.

The assistance a manager provided to a worker has helped quash the worker's claim that she was unreasonably performance managed - and injured - over issues stemming from her employer's inadequate resources.

A major employer has been fined $70,000 for serious contraventions of its consultation obligations, with the Federal Court finding it pursued a "commercial benefit" ahead of the safety of its workers and others affected by its undertaking.

The Fair Work Commission has ordered an organisation's members to undergo anti-bullying training, to impress upon them what bullying is and its consequences for workers.

• Four ways to curb the "ripple effect" of poor worker wellbeing; and
  
• New Qld review to focus on psychological injuries.

Employers in the highly hazardous mining sector could be compelled to adopt better leading indicators of safety performance, subjected to more unannounced regulatory inspections, and targeted by new laws aimed at protecting workers who raise safety concerns, under recommendations from a parliamentary inquiry.

In a WHS case involving the deaths of two teenage students from overseas, a court has imposed a penalty much higher than that recommended by the prosecution, stressing that unlike workers, children are particularly vulnerable to business-related hazards because they haven't been trained to recognise or mitigate risks.

An employer's efforts to address a worker's "unattainable" workload might have come too late, but the woman's psychological injury was barred from compensation, an appeals court has ruled, finding a previous decision applied the wrong reasonable management action test.

• Safety regulator warns unsafe individuals after worker fined $30k; and
  
• Mobile-phone loophole closed by Qld safety amendments.

• Workplace manslaughter charges laid against related companies; and
  
• Safety compliance directives follow mobile plant incidents.