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Proposed HSR training regime released for comment; and Regulators more likely to prosecute under harmonisation, ACCI warns.

South Australia's Industrial Relations Minister Bernard Finnigan has today resigned from Cabinet after just two months on the job.

Employers must not adopt a "narrow" view of the hazards they are obliged to address, a Queensland judge has ruled in upholding a safety fine issued after a teenage gymnast's death.

A South Australian employer that failed to prevent a worker - who was on restricted duties and affected by alcohol - from performing a risky task has been fined, after the worker was nearly killed.

A Queensland court has reversed a decision to award $500,000 to a lone worker who was assaulted by an elderly customer, after finding her employer was entitled to regard the risk as "singularly slight".

Industrial manslaughter laws unlikely for Western Australia; and Western Australian workers' comp premiums to rise.

A South Australian judge has found a host employer's system for storing hazardous material was safe, in rejecting an injured worker's damages claim.

Federal Workplace Relations Minister Chris Evans has outlined a host of enforcement regimes employers could be subjected to under harmonised OHS laws, in assuring unions there will be "safeguards against regulator inactivity".

Queensland regulator outlines changes under harmonised laws; and Queensland employers and workers fined for safety breaches.

An engineer who was required to attend a work-related dinner - where alcoholic drinks were served - and failed a urine test the following morning was rightly dismissed, Fair Work Australia has ruled.