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An operations manager who was sacked when he returned to work after the Christmas shutdown period - for breaching safety rules more than two months before - has had his unfair dismissal claim upheld.

A safety-incident interview that "transformed itself" into a disciplinary meeting was not a reasonable platform for sacking a worker who allegedly breached nine safety rules, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Swearing at colleague constituted "threat of violence"; and New Safe Rates program expanded to six sectors.

A worker who failed to respond to a control-room gas alarm because he was eating his lunch was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A worker has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that his positive drug test was "exacerbated" by the surge of adrenalin he experienced while fighting a fire on a front-end loader.

BHP Billiton was right to sack three workers for lying during an investigation into safety breaches, the Fair Work Commission has found in rejecting the workers' unfair dismissal claims.

An employer that sacked a worker, because it believed he was a workers' comp "predator" who was likely to deliberately injure himself, has been ordered to pay the man compensation.

An employer had a valid reason to dismiss a worker, who spent half a night shift in a crib room for ostensible safety reasons, but failed to properly investigate the incident, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A worker, who claimed the aggressive emails and text messages he sent to colleagues were neither threatening nor work-related, was fairly sacked, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An employer has been ordered to reinstate a worker it sacked after learning he had paranoid schizophrenia, with the Fair Work Commission finding it "ignored" the advice of its psychiatrist.