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An employer fined $400,000 over the death of a lone worker has lost its appeal against its conviction and sentence, with a court affirming it was open to a jury to conclude the company should have implemented a two-person rule for a dangerous task.

• Company officer charged with bullying and causing breaches;
  
• First anti-harassment audit completed in mining campaign; and
  
• Injury fraudster sentenced after probe into ambulance calls.

An employee who failed to complete his employer's "working from home" checklist, during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been awarded compensation, with a tribunal ruling his unergonomic home office set-up significantly contributed to his right shoulder injury.

A "formidable and direct" manager's email reprimanding an overworked worker for working from home was unreasonable and caused a compensable psychiatric injury, a tribunal has found.

A labour-hire company "induced or encouraged" a fly-in-fly-out worker to play the soccer game between shifts that injured him, a judge has confirmed, rejecting the company's claim that any inducement came from a third party and removed its liability.

Results from a new international collaborative study have prompted the authors to call for employment policies and safety laws that protect workers from widespread out-of-hours managerial intrusions, while new research by LinkedIn shows "loud leaving" supervisors can help prevent burnout.

"Covert" online bullying, domestic violence and being overlooked for promotion are just some of the psychosocial hazards faced by flexible and hybrid workers, and are issues employers and WHS managers are struggling to tackle, according to two senior WHS lawyers.

Being offered hybrid working arrangements is helping workers exercise for an average of 90 minutes more per week, and get dozens of extra hours of sleep per year, significantly improving their health and reducing stress levels, a survey has found.

• Right-to-disconnect Bill tackles "availability creep", poor health; and
  
• Anti-harassment protections extended to Defence workplaces.

The suicide rate among Australia's mining workers is higher than most others and appears to be increasing, according to Melbourne researchers, who identify the likely reasons for this, and call for companies and their owners to do more to protect the individuals who have "produced and supported their wealth".