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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.

A company accused of failing to ensure a hazardous task was performed at a safer time of the day, or under floodlights, has been fined $250,000 over the death of a jockey, in a case highlighting the breadth of workplace health and safety laws.

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".

Shift workers are eating an average of 264 more kilojoules per day than regular workers, according to Australian researchers, who say the increase is linked to several kilograms of weight gain per year, and stress the findings should inform workplace programs.

A major employer has been fined $70,000 for serious contraventions of its consultation obligations, with the Federal Court finding it pursued a "commercial benefit" ahead of the safety of its workers and others affected by its undertaking.

A major employer did not need to prove an "immediate and current issue" existed to justify implementing its new fatigue-busting roster, which was influenced by the transition to more prescriptive safety obligations, a commission has found.

A PCBU failed to take straightforward measures that would have protected a worker from being attacked by a client known to be violent, a tribunal has found in convicting the duty holder.

A worker who was on "availability duty" when he tripped and broke his leg, while walking his dog, was "doing what he was paid to do when he was injured", a full supreme court has ruled, noting previous judgments - both for and against the worker - unnecessarily applied the High Court test for interval injuries.

Modest reductions in daily working hours can address conditions that increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, while workplace health programs can help sustain the benefits, according to an interventional study.

A worker has won her claim that a BHP company took unlawful adverse action against her for refusing to work in a poorly lit area, and that the company's workplace safety procedures are "instruments" under industrial laws.