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A Victorian amputee, who fraudulently obtained more than $112,000 in workers' comp benefits with the help of six complicit care providers, has been jailed for 16 months.

A Queensland union employee has been awarded workers' compensation for a psychological injury, after the Industrial Relations Commission found her manager humiliated her in front of colleagues during a meeting.

An injured ACT worker, who was prosecuted for misusing a company travel card and claimed the process caused her stress, has failed to regain her workers' compensation benefits.

In this update, OHS Alert outlines all the important workplace health and safety and workers' compensation legislative changes made in the final quarter of 2012. We also recap the most significant court and tribunal rulings and other developments in all jurisdictions.

A female Queensland worker, who suffered a psychological injury after using shared toilet facilities, has had her compensation appeal dismissed in the Industrial Court. Also in this article, two employers have been fined for guarding and emergency-rescue breaches.

Motel rendezvous dispute goes to High Court; and Victorian employer fined $375k for exclusion-zone breach after death.

The OHS Alert team is taking a break for the Christmas holidays and will start publishing again on 14 January.

Two employers have been ordered to pay $2.3 million in damages to a worker who suffered extensive injuries when he fell through scaffolding that had been tampered with.

FWA blocks move to drop OHS provisions from modern award; Special risk assessments urged after electrocution; and WA workers' comp amendments commence tomorrow.

Workplace interventions aimed at improving worker productivity are "most effective" if they tackle bullying and harassment and reduce work pressure, a major Safe Work Australia report says.