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A major employer says its five-step program for reducing sprains and strains, and an initiative aimed at empowering workers to "speak up" about safety and bullying, have helped it boost its safety culture.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has renewed its warning on Infinity-branded electrical cables, which were installed in thousands of commercial buildings and are expected to start becoming brittle and create safety risks within a matter of months.

The Fair Work Commission has rejected a worker's claim that she was forced to resign because her employer failed to properly deal with her bullying allegations while she was on extended sick leave.

The widow of a worker who died of a heart attack has been awarded workers' compensation, after a tribunal found the man performed strenuous work duties shortly before his death.

An employer that helps workers take control of their personal and work lives through resilience workshops has achieved "one of the best" lost-time injury frequency rates in its industry, its national WHS manager says.

Western Australia will amend existing safety Codes of Practice, rather than introduce a new Code, to improve FIFO workers' mental health, according to the State Government's response to the inquiry into the issue. The Government declined to support a recommendation to acknowledge that FIFO workers are at risk of suicide.

An inquiry into FIFO work practices has called on the Queensland Government to establish minimum accommodation standards for FIFO workers, including adequate protection from noise and light and access to health services, and to ban "motelling".

• Court blames injured worker for toxic environment; and
  
• Link found between work noise and coronary heart disease.

An employer has cut its injury rate by 20 per cent in a year through a critical risk management program that includes controlling risk controls and "escalation factors".

• Employers told to prevent rather than react to mental health problems;
  
• Four workers' comp reforms commence in NSW next week;
  
• NT sends workers' comp reminder and issues safety alerts; and
  
• NHVR flags start date for electronic fatigue diaries.