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• Remotely operated plant crushes workers, employer fined $210k; and
  
• Job seeker with mental illness wins $10k in discrimination case.

• WorkCover extended to cyclone volunteers;
  
• Priority nurse-safety strategies implemented in NT;
  
• ACT and SA tackle violence and drug-driving; and
  
• Tasmanian WHS Minister unlikely to recover from illness.

An employer's job hardening program has helped workers who are at high risk of recurring injuries meet the physical demands of their roles, and potentially added more than five years to their working lives.

• Four strategies for improving young worker safety; and
  
• Measles alert, solar-panel advice and remote-worker video released in NT.

• Fatigue factors to influence new FIFO rules in Qld;
  
• Workplace anti-suicide initiative gets $1m boost;
  
• WIRO calls for end to "secretive" workers' comp reviews; and
  
• Quad-bike-substitution rebates doubled in NSW.

Employers have been urged to take psychological risks as seriously as other workplace hazards, after an audit found that few mining operations properly consult with workers on mental wellbeing strategies.

A worker has proven an "unbroken chain of causation" between being posted to a remote location, contracting whooping cough and suffering a debilitating stroke.

A worker formerly embroiled in discrimination proceedings against his employer has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that it forced him to resign by not allowing him to work from home to accommodate a psych injury.

Employers have been urged to ensure their contractors have the skills to manage fatigue, after three companies were found liable for a worker's car-crash injuries and $1.25 million damages bill.

A worker injured in an employer-provided cabin is entitled to workers' compensation, a tribunal has found. However, it also found that the cabin wasn't his place of employment.