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• Go home on time to improve work-life balance and health; and
  
• VWA issues advice on exposure standards and harvest safety.

The Federal Court has rejected an employer's claim that a worker's widow isn't entitled to compensation because the man's death was "inevitable".

• Workplace harassment driven by sense of entitlement, says police chief;
  
• NSW issues heat warning and small business safety guides; and
  
• WA employers told to establish coordinated cyclone plans.

Employers must ensure they have adequate resources to prevent or manage medical issues faced by workers who travel internationally - and it isn't just high-risk regions they need to worry about, US researchers have found.

• Employers urged to comply with RTW codes;
  
• "Little failures" cause major safety incidents;
  
• SafeWork debunks myths on "disallowed" codes and height rules; and
  
• WorkCover SA getting new name.

European researchers have found shift work impairs workers' cognitive functioning, and warn the problem could have a significant impact on safety outcomes as the number of shift-work roles increases.

An employer says it has made its workplace safer by introducing seven "safehaven" rules, and reduced its total recordable injury frequency rate by 30 per cent.

Australian researchers have found that while medical practitioners are regularly exposed to aggression from "external sources", bullying or abuse from co-workers has the greatest impact on their health and job satisfaction.

Advances in predictive analytics will make it easier for employers to foresee and prevent safety incidents, but low-probability disasters such as oil rig failures are likely to "defy prediction", according to a US expert on occupational medicine.

A new European report has outlined how employers in a highly hazardous industry have reduced workers' exposure to violence, infectious diseases and other risks.