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Safety complaints are critical to preventing workplace accidents and injuries, but workers need to know they won't be punished for making them, a senior employment lawyer has warned after a survey found that one in 10 workers believe they could get fired for reporting issues.

A major employer has become the second entity to be convicted of WHS offences relating to a load toppling from a forklift driven by an unlicensed labour-hire worker.

A major, incident-strewn road construction project under unprecedented government scrutiny has been ordered to cease work over new safety concerns, while an ongoing study has found that training supervisors to risk-manage manual tasks can slash musculoskeletal claims.

The High Court has rejected another special leave application involving a work-related psychiatric injury in Queensland, with an employer being the losing party on this occasion.

Unions are using Workers' Memorial Day tomorrow to highlight preventable fatalities and call for Queensland's WHS penalties to be adopted nationally, while others have called for better safety leadership and greater focus on vulnerable young workers.

An appeals court has upheld a worker's nearly $2 million damages award, after finding his host employer "permitted" him to depart from its "reasonably safe de facto work system" without ensuring he did so safely.

Two employers have been convicted and fined for WHS offences, after a 417-visa worker who wasn't provided with translated work instructions sustained serious arm injuries.

An employer has been fined $260,000 after a worker fell from a broken maintenance plank and died, while a regulator has called for duty holders to properly secure loads on lifting machinery, after another worker was killed.

In yet another inquiry into an electrocution involving a roof area, a coroner has renewed calls to extend mandatory requirements for residual current devices (RCDs), and retrofit all domestic, industrial and commercial premises.

The High Court will determine whether the harmonised WHS laws extend to all workplaces and operate in conjunction with other legislation that previously "covered the field", after granting a regulator special leave to appeal against the quashing of fatality-related charges.