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A government employer has been ordered to pay more than $1.6 million in damages to a worker injured by an agitated and aggressive client, with a court finding it was negligent through the failures of two security guards who let the worker help them restrain the client.

Employers have been warned to avoid the "fire hose trap" of safety messaging, with a trends report identifying a surge in safety-related critical incidents, including workplace incidents where police are called.

New anti-violence jail terms of up to 11 years will help improve the safety of retail workers and reduce the alarmingly high numbers of assaults and abuse in the sector, according to the NSW Government and one of Australia's largest employers.

An employer sacked a worker because she requested unpaid domestic violence leave to care for her son, and not, as it claimed, because she engaged in bullying and other forms of misconduct, a commission has ruled.

• International treaties impact on workplace safety;
  
• OHS test forms part of new child employment laws in Vic; and
  
• SRC Directions amended.

A worker who was assaulted while socialising with teenage girls "during a journey arising out of or in the course of [his] employment", has been denied compensation under both the High Court test for interval injuries and the journey "deviation" test.

A worker who was sacked for engaging in a verbal altercation with railway personnel on his way to work has been reinstated, with a commission finding his actions didn't warrant his dismissal and he didn't pose a safety risk to his colleagues, despite his history of "aggressive outbursts".

From next week, employers in Canberra will have a duty to report "actual or suspected" incidents of workplace s-xual assault to a WHS regulator, under new laws that also ban insurance against WHS penalties.

Through a scoping review, a group of researchers have identified the three most effective intervention methods to help reduce the negative impacts of workplace violence.

A dysfunctional working relationship did not involve bullying exposing a worker to safety risks, a commission has found in rejecting the worker's bid for stop-bullying orders.