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The Greens have called for a WHS regulator to reveal how many abandoned cases are under review, after it re-classified a nurse's murder as work-related and apologised to her family.

A worker's widow has been denied damages for nervous shock, after a superior court rejected her claim that her husband's employer negligently failed to stop him drinking alcohol at the workplace after hours.

It takes more than just the people within an organisation to facilitate a positive culture and worker wellbeing. Building managers and others who own and run workplaces need to "set the tone", a leading psychologist says.

A major employer should have undertaken psychological profiling of a worker before offering him a role where he had to deal with threatening situations, a court has found in awarding him more than $150,000 in damages for mental injuries.

An engineer has been convicted and fined $100,000 for OHS breaches that contributed to a bulk excavation collapsing, forcing the evacuation of neighbouring residents.

An appeals court has upheld a $1 million-plus injury damages award against a company, as well as a finding that the company's control of another entity extended to the supervision of OHS matters.

A commission has blocked 83 workers from resigning as auxiliary firefighters over concerns that their employer's move to replace directly-employed emergency response operators (EROs) with contractors will compromise their safety.

A "de facto" employer has been ordered to pay more than $450,000 to a worker who was directed to work on a wet platform, before slipping and falling two metres. Meanwhile, a superior court has found a company breached its duty of care to a mechanic who was crushed by a 200kg plate.

• Safety regulator outlines four key CoR responsibilities;
  
• Employer charged, and others warned after $350k fine; and
  
• WorkSafe commences long-planned quad bike crackdown.

A sole trader who failed to ensure a third-party site had a proper traffic management system has been convicted of WHS offences, after one of his employees was struck by a forklift.