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Australian PCBUs tend to focus heavily on the "real and imagined" hazards posed by workers with mental illness, while being "almost indifferent" to how these workers are psychologically impacted by discriminatory and poorly designed work systems, according to a leading disability rights and industrial relations academic.

• Work safety breaches kill man on mobility scooter;
  
• Man fined for five asbestos-related WHS contraventions; and
  
• ACTU repeats calls for anti-bullying-style harassment jurisdiction.

A union official who encouraged workers to defy a major employer's sun-protection policy was attempting to fulfil the wishes of workers and didn't engage in unlawful industrial action, a full Federal Court has found in setting aside high-range penalties.

A confined-space worker who wasn't provided with flame-resistant PPE or adequate training on how to deal with a fire has been awarded more than $700,000 in damages.

Ongoing coaching and feedback are crucial for workers to maintain behaviour change and achieve real health benefits from interventions to reduce sitting at work, according to researchers.

An injured worker's employment conditions after a council amalgamation, including an increased workload and having to use new software she couldn't get the hang of, did not fall within the meaning of reasonable actions taken with respect to her transfer, a commission has found.

• PCBUs overlooking carcinogen declaration for welding; and
  
• NSW doubles asbestos fines to $2m.

An employer's ban on workers remaining at remote client sites or using company vehicles during dispute-related work stoppages did not endanger their safety, a commission has found.

Western Australia recently adopted Australia's second highest maximum work safety fines, but a major employer has been fined just $65,000 over a preventable fatality, with the State's former, notoriously lenient penalty regime continuing to apply to offences committed prior to October this year.

A major employer that developed a new safety strategy in collaboration with contractors has reduced its total recordable injury frequency rate by 75 per cent, and won a national safety leadership award.