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An HR manager who claimed her back injury arose from excessive sitting at work has been denied workers' compensation.

The CFMEU has questioned how a Grocon subsidiary can be fined just $250,000 over three deaths when the union was fined $1.25 million for "speaking out" on safety issues, while Federal Employment Minister Eric Abetz has accused the union of being "pro-drugs" on Victorian building sites.

• Both personal and process safety must be measured, regulator warns; and
  
• New jurisdiction welcomed to national rail safety regime.

An employer has failed in its renewed bid to recover $53,000 in workers' comp payments, after the Western Australian Court of Appeal rejected its claim that a building owner was negligent in failing to touch up the yellow paint on a trip hazard.

Hundreds of thousands of Australian workers are regularly and unnecessarily exposed to carcinogens such as lead and formaldehyde, according to three new Safe Work Australia reports, which outline how to reduce exposure to the substances.

An employer has introduced a "stop the job" safety policy as part of a $230,000 enforceable undertaking under Queensland's harmonised WHS Act.

Tasmania's mirror WHS Act and other laws could be strengthened to crack down on workplace bullying, according to a draft plan, which says many workers are able to bully others "without fear of consequences" under the current system.

More than 260 international asbestos experts and other stakeholders have condemned claims from some manufacturers that some forms of asbestos are safe, and called for all Australian state's to adopt the ACT's plan to demolish asbestos buildings.

A safety consultant who fell in the foyer of her multi-tenanted work building was injured at her place of employment, a NSW WCC Deputy President has found.

An employer that persevered with "weak" administrative controls after it was fined for safety breaches in 2009, has become the first entity to be successfully prosecuted under South Australia's harmonised WHS laws.