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A project creating well-fitting 3D-printed work wear and sound-absorbing furniture for "recovery spaces" has shown the design phase is key to creating tools for preventing workplace injuries from psychosocial hazards.

A worker who was treated poorly after he asked his boss not to call him a "c-nt" has been awarded at least $93,500, with a court highlighting the worker's rights under health and safety laws and finding his employer's decision to dismiss him was influenced by his complaint.

• Employers baffled by large injury premium hikes; and
  
• Upselling "scam" breached electrical safety laws.

• Platform used by public collapses, employer fined; and
  
• No-go zones urged for National Farm Safety Week.

In this major must-read report, OHS Alert examines all the key workplace health and safety and workers' compensation developments from the second quarter of 2023, including a wide range of actual and proposed WHS amendments, a string of high-profile safety prosecutions, and concerns around surging burnout rates.

• Employers must destroy certain COVID vaccine records in Vic;
  
• Untrained workers handed chemical job, employer fined; and
  
• Crane supplier charged with safety offences.

A worker has failed to prove on appeal that his employer was vicariously liable for another worker's actions in pointing a gun at his head, which caused his post-traumatic stress disorder.

Two fraudsters, including one who made workers' comp claims against companies that never employed him, have been convicted and ordered to pay back more than $250,000. Meanwhile, an employer has been fined $280,000 after the fatal crushing of a worker in a trapping space it created.

A company that repeatedly placed its workers in danger, including in underwater confined spaces, has been convicted and fined heavily under multiple reckless endangerment charges.

A company has been fined nearly $3 million for workplace safety and environmental breaches, in relation to chemical stockpiling and fire incidents that contributed to the Victorian Government's decision to introduce new recklessness offences attracting jail time.