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• Employer entitled to sack "strange", aggressive worker;
  
• Victoria commits to "presumptive" compensation after years of pressure; and
  
• Alerts issued after trailer death and heat-stress incident.

An employer that failed to assign a spotter for a hazardous task has been convicted of OHS breaches, with the NSW District Court yesterday rejecting its claim that a worker's injury wasn't foreseeable because a similar incident had never occurred.

• Five options flagged for WA safety laws;
  
• New WHS regulations postponed in Queensland;
  
• Tasmania's safest employers and workers announced; and
  
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A worker who was repeatedly groped by her director has been awarded $733,000 in damages, after the NSW District Court found her employer exposed her to serious and immediate danger in failing to act on her complaints.

An injured worker has been denied compensation after a Tasmanian tribunal found that his job, hereditary factors, ageing, previous incidents and recreational activities all might have contributed to his degenerative back condition.

An employer's claim that a permanently injured worker could perform locksmith work or a similar "light" role has been rejected in the Victorian County Court.

• WorkCover embarks on Barangaroo-inspired safety blitz;
  
• Vic employers fined and placed on adjourned undertakings; and
  
• SA employer fined for failing to act on identified chemical hazard.

The Fair Work Commission has received far fewer applications than expected under its new anti-bullying jurisdiction, but it has received more than 100,000 enquiries on the issue, and the application rate is gradually increasing, according to its annual report.

South Australia's new workers' comp statute passed through Parliament today, while the State Government has revoked a WHS Code of Practice.

An employer has been fined a total of $225,000 in two separate judgments - involving NSW's old and new safety legislation - for failing to ensure two employees working near conveyor belts could reach an emergency stop switch.