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Western Australia's proposed mirror WHS laws for the resources sector should include a duty of care at worker accommodation facilities, suicide-specific provisions and a special Code of Practice that addresses rosters, fatigue and bullying, the parliamentary inquiry into FIFO arrangements has recommended.

Coronial inquiries into emergency personnel suicides have recommended employers train managers to identify stress and depression in workers, and introduce mentor programs.

The messages of the national Heads Up initiative appear to be sinking in, with a new report showing the number of employers providing workers with mental health awareness training and information has increased by 29 per cent since the initiative was launched 12 months ago.

It was "glaringly improbable" an employer knew a worker had PTSD before sacking him for failing to undertake a competency assessment, the Federal Court has found in partially upholding the employer's adverse action appeal and reducing the man's $100,000 award.

Employers should ensure their internal or external employee assistance programs go beyond supporting workers through counselling, and tackle negative trends in the workplace, an EAP provider's chief executive says.

A landmark NSW Supreme Court decision, thought to be the first of its kind in the world, shows employees can now pursue compensation for PTSD as a "bodily injury", according to the lawyer of a worker awarded damages in the case.

Employee stress levels relating to 13 out of 16 work factors identified by the American Psychological Association - including problems with co-workers and dangerous conditions - have increased over the last three years, according to a new report.

A tribunal has found that a worker's psychological injury was caused by her misinterpretation of a single email, not bullying by managers.

A worker who claims she was bullied at work on a daily basis has been denied damages, after a judge found the alleged abuse would have been "so consistently unpleasant" that it was "inconceivable" witnesses wouldn't have intervened.

Two co-workers whose romantic relationship was allegedly depicted in a novel, written by a colleague's husband, have been denied damages for psychiatric injuries.