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Europe's peak OHS agency has warned that a rise in management-led health and safety arrangements can reduce the effectiveness of worker representation processes.

Three unions and three organisers have been fined a total of $101,500 for unlawful industrial action at a paper mill, after the Federal Court rejected claims that they needed to halt work because of poor first-aid arrangements.

A parliamentary committee will inquire into an abandoned fatality-related WHS prosecution, while the powers of South Australian HSRs will be aligned with other states, if initiatives moved by the Greens are passed.

Elected health and safety representatives do not have an "overarching" right to decide which training course to attend under the model WHS Act, as claimed by a union and a misleading SafeWork NSW guide, a commission has ruled.

In a case reiterating the need for employers to provide sufficient evidentiary material in workers' comp disputes, a tribunal has found that an injured health and safety officer is entitled to weekly benefits.

The construction watchdog has filed an appeal against a Federal Court ruling that union officials don't need entry permits to enter sites at the request of health and safety representatives.

The Federal Government's renewed plan to tighten right-of-entry laws will hamstring union activities that reduce workplace injuries, the ACTU has warned. Meanwhile, ACCI has warned employers against trusting certificates from overseas manufacturers declaring goods as asbestos-free.

A school principal bullied an OHS representative by assigning a business manager, who the rep had a poor relationship with, to take part in her annual review, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An IR commission has identified a "conundrum" in the WHS provisions on work groups and health and safety reps, in granting a worker leave to intervene in an ongoing dispute.

A union has reminded Fair Work Building and Construction that construction "is a bloody dangerous industry", after the regulator filed Federal Court proceedings against 52 workers for walking off the job after a health and safety rep was sacked.