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• Go home on time to improve work-life balance and health; and
  
• VWA issues advice on exposure standards and harvest safety.

A worker who gained 60kg and needed a walking frame after he injured his back and knee has been awarded workers' compensation for major depressive disorder.

• Registrations open for OHS Alert subscriber webinar on employee accountability for safety;
  
• Work-related death rate soars in August; and
  
• WorkCover NSW drops two scheme agents.

Injured employees in NSW are entitled to accrue leave while they're absent from work and receiving compensation - for now, the Federal Circuit Court has found.

A worker who injured his back on an EWP has lost the $650,000 in damages awarded to him under motor accident laws, after the NSW Court of Appeal found the vehicle wasn't being driven at the time of the incident.

An injured worker - who spent 90 per cent of his working time in the ACT and the rest in NSW - didn't "usually" work in the Territory, and wasn't entitled to workers' compensation under its laws, a superior court has ruled.

The Federal Court has rejected an employer's claim that a worker's widow isn't entitled to compensation because the man's death was "inevitable".

Federal Employment Minister Eric Abetz has called for employers and unions to play an active role in a plan - agreed to by Abetz and other G20 employment ministers - to improve workplace safety through "robust legal frameworks".

• Workplace harassment driven by sense of entitlement, says police chief;
  
• NSW issues heat warning and small business safety guides; and
  
• WA employers told to establish coordinated cyclone plans.

• Employers urged to comply with RTW codes;
  
• "Little failures" cause major safety incidents;
  
• SafeWork debunks myths on "disallowed" codes and height rules; and
  
• WorkCover SA getting new name.