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From a study spanning 30 years, European researchers have warned that the link between back pain and work disability has been underestimated. They urge the use of interventions that identify recurrent back pain and help sufferers remain in employment.

A senior health and safety manager has urged employers to ensure that workers understand why each aspect of their workplace emergency response plan is in place.

The Australian and New Zealand version of the new international Standard for occupational health and safety management systems, ISO 45001, will be available within days, Standards Australia revealed at the Safety in Action Conference today.

A judge has rejected a PCBU's claim, on appeal, that it had been entitled to rely on a principal contractor to complete a safety critical task. But she quashed its WHS conviction, after finding the prosecutor misstated the date of the breach.

A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld the dismissal of an elected health and safety rep, whose mistreatment of contractors preceded a suicide attempt. Meanwhile, a Qantas worker has reiterated his claim that he inadvertently consumed more than a dozen standard alcoholic drinks on the night before a shift.

• Three hundred thousand reasons to comply with a WHS notice;
  
• Regulator issues fatality alert, investigates confined space death; and
  
• PC's mental health probe to examine workplaces.

A coronial inquest has found that a young worker was not abandoned by two co-workers, who were meant to watch out for his safety, before he was killed in a trench collapse, and identified an important safeguard implemented after the incident.

A WHS regulator's investigative and prosecutorial roles should be transferred to police and the DPP, given its "abysmal" investigation into a workplace fatality, a union has told a coronial inquest into the death.

• WHS-style CoR laws commence, safety systems needed;
  
• "Easy to do" WHS toolkit and snapshots released in NSW and Tas; and
  
• Employer and WHS manager win two awards each in Qld.

Three major government employers face WHS fines of up to a total of $7.55 million, after a worker died in a freezer and a high school student disappeared on a camp exercise. Meanwhile, a WHS regulator has unsuccessfully appealed against a 40 per cent fine reduction.