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An employee who injured herself during a toilet break is entitled to compensation, after a court rejected her employer's claim that such a break isn't considered an "ordinary recess".

A trial judge "set a standard of care well above that which was reasonable" when he ordered an employer to pay $650,000 in damages to a man who was hit by a train while intoxicated, the NSW Court of Appeal has found in quashing the decision.

Two South Australian employers, including one that failed to act on a manager's safety warning, have been fined more than $190,000 in separate proceedings, after two workers were injured in falls down voids.

Twelve mirror WHS Codes of Practice came into force in NSW this morning, while five old Codes were revoked, with the changes significantly affecting three industries, according to WorkCover.

In a decision that is likely to lead to far more generous payouts for victims of workplace s-xual harassment, a former Oracle employee's damages for psychological injuries have been increased by $112,000.

A new paper from the Northern Territory has questioned whether the costs of the model WHS legislation's provisions on principal contractors and audiometric testing outweigh the benefits.

Work health and safety interventions should focus on either physical or psychological health, depending on how old the targeted workers are, a new Australian report says.

A worker who told WorkCover SA he broke his hand when he tripped, when he actually sustained the injury by punching a wall, has become the second worker in two days to be penalised for workers' comp fraud.

Being hit by falling objects continues to be one of the leading causes of work-related deaths in Australia, according to a major report, which has prompted questions over Western Australia's increasing fatality rate.

In only the third case of its type, a Queensland employer has entered a $200,000 enforceable undertaking under the mirror WHS laws, after two workers were injured when a tyre exploded.