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• Returning expat miners could spread Ebola; and
  
• Paid domestic violence leave flagged for awards review.

• Queensland's "one-stop" safety shop launches next week;
  
• Poor compliance found in workers' comp campaign;
  
• Queensland's safest employers and workers announced; and
  
• Jail times doubled for health-worker assaults.

A safety rep who verbally abused a leading hand because he giggled at a hazard observation was fairly sacked, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

Compensation cheat escapes jail, but suspended sentences now abolished; Don't forget about silicosis, warns VWA; Greens motion for firefighters with cancer defeated; and Emergency workers protected by new anti-violence laws.

The employer of a worker who was kidnapped and murdered while performing duties after-hours has failed in its appeal against a $300,000 death-benefits order.

Employers can take three simple steps to recognise and manage workplace conflict, the Comcare Conference in Melbourne has heard.

Two companies that owed a worker at a work Christmas party a duty of care aren't liable for injuries he sustained when he was assaulted, the Queensland Supreme Court has ruled.

A worker's claim that he was injured while trying to fulfil his OHS duties when he confronted a man, who abused a woman at a service station, has been rejected.

A third of Victorian mental health workers are suffering forms of psychological stress because of workplace violence, with 90 per cent of them taking sick leave as a result, according to new research.

There is a "qualitative difference" between swearing in the workplace and swearing at a colleague, the Fair Work Commission has affirmed, in finding an employer fairly sacked a worker for verbally abusing his manager.