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An "injured" worker has been denied more than $1 million in damages, after a court found he tripped in wet conditions because he negligently left a designated workplace walkway.

• First stage of OHS-style environment laws introduced in Vic;
  
• Cancer Bill passes Lower House without proposed change; and
  
• Radiation Regulations and RIS released for comment.

• CoR enforcement expanded with new police powers;
  
• New pesticides regulations released in NSW; and
  
• Asbestos, crane and gas warnings issued in two states.

The dispute over union powers to enter sites to assist HSRs appears to be far from over, with a safety regulator "considering its options" in relation to the full Federal Court's Friday decision on the matter.

A full Federal Court has quashed an earlier ruling that union officials don't need entry permits to enter workplaces to assist elected health and safety representatives.

The "minor penalty" imposed on the importer of notoriously unsafe Infinity-branded electrical cables will do little to deter the supply of non-conforming products endangering workers and members of the public, the Ai Group has warned.

An employer is being forced to reimburse an insurer for payments made to an injured worker, after it failed in its appeal against a decision that the worker was "usually based" in a state where it didn't have workers' comp insurance.

Mining operations will be blocked or shut down if their "dust abatement" plans are inadequate or they have poor dust-monitoring records, under recommendations from a damning inquiry into the "re-identification" of black lung disease.

White-collar workers with chronic lower back pain sit more asymmetrically than their healthy colleagues, but this asymmetry is significantly reduced when they assume "neutral" sitting postures, researchers have found.

Construction giant John Holland Pty Ltd has been fined heavily for WHS breaches on Adelaide's South Road Superway construction project for the second time.