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A former Qantas pilot who claimed he s-xually harassed a female colleague on a layover in Chile because his drink had been spiked, has had his unfair dismissal claim rejected by a Fair Work Commission full bench for the second time.

The Queensland Coroner has, in an inquest into a worker's death, called for employers to treat workers as casualties as soon as they're affected by heat, criticised "buddy" systems, and said he was "startled" to discover that there was no construction-industry standard relating to high temperatures.

Regulators should "join the criminal law dots" to ensure accommodation workplaces don't get away with WHS breaches, while legislators should develop guidance for these workplaces and amend the definition of "notifiable incident", according to a former WorkSafe Victoria prosecuting solicitor.

A Rio Tinto subsidiary has entered the first enforceable undertaking under the Northern Territory's mirror WHS Act, and committed to a large minimum spend of nearly $1 million.

The modernised WHS Bill for the Western Australian resources sector could be amended to make it clear that a worker's right to cease unsafe work extends to protecting the safety of others, under one of range of recommendations in an RIS on the Bill.

A prohibition notice issued to an employer required "a practice in excess of industry standards" and related to an "extremely low" health and safety risk, a commission has found in revoking the notice.

An employer has failed to convince the South Australian IRC that introducing a formal hazard identification and risk assessment process wouldn't have prevented a worker being crushed to death in plant.

A FIFO worker who was assaulted at a mining-camp tavern was injured in an interval in an overall period of work and is entitled to compensation, a Federal Court full bench has found in upholding his appeal.

An inquest into the death of a young tourist, who fell off a cliff while taking "fun photos", has found the tour company took no steps to ensure employee training on client safety was effective.

An employer has been ordered to reinstate a worker accused of unsafely driving a vehicle and causing a rollover, after the Fair Work Commission found the company relied on an inconclusive report from an expert when it sacked the man.