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The HSEQ manager behind an award-winning injury prevention program has outlined six questions that employers must address before their safety systems can be effective.

A manager has been refused workers' compensation for injuries sustained at a client's social event, after a tribunal found his attendance wasn't required by his employment.

• New workplace resources launched for R U OK?Day; and
  
• Petitioners demand prompt action on FIFO safety Code.

ABC TV presenter Dr Maryanne Demasi has been refused workers' compensation for a broken hip sustained while jogging, after a tribunal rejected her claim that the incident occurred "during an ordinary recess" in her employment.

The wife of a man killed in a work-related car crash has been refused workers' compensation, after a tribunal found the man was a de facto company director rather than a "worker".

PricewaterhouseCoopers will depart from a traditional office environment, and create a workplace that encourages workers to get up from their desks and move around, at its new Sydney headquarters.

A young worker was electrocuted in an "unsafe and dangerous" workplace overseen by a CEO who was ignorant of WHS laws for residual current devices (RCDs), a coronial inquest has found.

An employer that failed to identify the need to both electrically and mechanically isolate a machine for a maintenance task has been fined for safety breaches, after a worker's legs were amputated below the knee.

A spate of work incidents involving powerlines and poles has prompted warnings from a major energy company and a safety regulator.

Psychological distress among employees and managers costs the Australian coal mining industry nearly 10 per cent of its pre-tax operating profit, but intervention programs are cost-effective, a unique study has found.