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Engaging a "competent person" to assess electrical safety and install protection devices for a roof space might not have prevented a labourer's electric shock, but isolating and de-energising the space would have, a court has ruled in finding two employers guilty of WHS breaches.

The costs of accurately measuring a work building's indoor environmental quality and improving thermal comfort are "very modest" compared to returns in employee wellbeing and productivity, according to one of the world's leading researchers in the field.

Lifting heavy loads just twice a week can double a worker's risk of retinal detachment, and the incident rate is likely to increase as the workforce ages, an international study have found.

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Providing staff with peer support and mentoring increases engagement and improves safety, a mental health organisation has claimed on the back of a report raising concerns about declining support networks.

A judge has reiterated the vulnerability of work experience students and fined a company $250,000, after a 17-year-old student's hand was crushed in a machine.

A sole trader has been handed a record fine under Queensland's mirror WHS Act, after an untrained casual worker was killed. Meanwhile, a dive company has been fined for safety breaches following the death of a UK tourist.

An ongoing inquiry has found that black lung was never eradicated in Australia, but persisted because of "massive" regulatory failures.

The Federal Government has claimed that the new ACTU secretary's controversial comments on workplace fatalities have been "exposed as baseless", while an employer has hit out at accusations that it provided workers with squalid accommodation between split shifts.

Ensuring employees who prepare risk assessments have the necessary expertise is one of five important lessons from a recent inquiry into the death of a man at a festival, according to a health, safety and security lawyer.