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Establishing an OHS committee proved pivotal to the success of an employer's award-winning health and wellbeing strategy, according to one of its directors.

• Series of construction deaths prompts warnings in NSW and Qld; and
  
• Wall-chasing workers exposed to numerous health hazards.

An employer has been ordered to reinstate a sacked worker, after the Fair Work Commission found it relied too heavily on one doctor's assessment of the man's capacity to return to work after a serious skydiving accident.

• National inquiry into black lung applauded; and
  
• Inquiry into unsafe building products holds hearing.

• Exposure incident and death prompt gas warning;
  
• New SWA chair appointed; and
  
• Did you miss our latest quarterly update?

• NSW amends heavy vehicle safety regulations;
  
• Qld launches truck-safety plan as NT drug rules commence;
  
• Qld's mirror marine safety laws get green light; and
  
• SA amends radiation regulations.

Female workers exposed to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are at increased risk of menstrual disorders and other health problems like fatigue, Chinese researchers have found.

Employers need to "intensify" their strategies for reducing work-related stress, according to researchers, who have found a third of workers in a white-collar industry could be clinically depressed.

A study of a major lockout-tagout (LOTO) intervention in the US has found that businesses with a safety committee are in a much stronger position to reduce the risks associated with servicing and maintaining machines.

A worker who was retrenched, shortly after returning to work after a back injury, suffered stress and sadness from losing his job, but not a compensable psych injury, a commissioner has found.