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Elected health and safety representatives do not have an "overarching" right to decide which training course to attend under the model WHS Act, as claimed by a union and a misleading SafeWork NSW guide, a commission has ruled.

• Fatigue factors to influence new FIFO rules in Qld;
  
• Workplace anti-suicide initiative gets $1m boost;
  
• WIRO calls for end to "secretive" workers' comp reviews; and
  
• Quad-bike-substitution rebates doubled in NSW.

A double amputee has been granted supreme court permission to sue nine employers for damages, five years after he sustained his catastrophic injuries in what should have been an exclusion zone.

An ergonomist has urged employers to increase their focus on workstation comfort and look beyond Australian Standards when purchasing furniture.

All workplace participants - from designers and customs brokers to workers - need to be aware of their WHS responsibilities relating to imported products, according to the CEO of the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency.

• WHS confined space rules clarified by regulator;
  
• NSW targets service stations with low WHS knowledge; and
  
• WA DMP upgrading hygiene sampling system.

An app-based health and wellbeing program has helped a major retailer's employees "join the dots" between their daily habits and their health, and reduced absences.

An employer has been found 40 per cent liable for a serious workplace injury, which was caused by a subcontracted excavator operator negligently using his mobile phone while operating the vehicle.

An employer has entered an enforceable undertaking worth nearly $1 million after a worker was killed between an elevated work platform and a concrete slab, while regulatory action taken against two major companies after the incident has been withdrawn.

Employers have been urged to take psychological risks as seriously as other workplace hazards, after an audit found that few mining operations properly consult with workers on mental wellbeing strategies.