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• Workers prosecuted for risking colleagues' safety;
  
• Employer fined after learner driver of faulty truck hits worker;
  
• Duty holders urged to ditch or modify unsafe quad bikes; and
  
• NSW and Qld issue chemical and fire alerts.

The Federal Court has rejected an injured worker's claim that his employer took adverse action against him by exposing him to a manager's abusive "dressing down" and failing to offer him a return-to-work plan.

An employer's fatality-related OHS fine has been increased by $200,000 on appeal, after the Victorian County Court found it failed to take basic precautions to protect pedestrian workers from mobile plant.

• First-aid kits and driving plans required by Safe Rates order; and
  
• Discrimination inquiry examining obstacles faced by older workers.

PCBUs are being advised to follow seven steps when developing or updating an independent contractor management plan, and to ensure they can provide safety inspectors with proof of their WHS compliance.

One of the first companies to participate in a NSW Government workplace health and wellbeing program encouraged its less-healthy employees to change their lifestyles by giving them a "reality check".

Workplace drug testing programs that rely on both urine and saliva samples provide a far superior deterrent against illicit drug use than single-method regimes, according to a Fair Work Commissioner.

Most safety professionals rely on the same "box of tricks" to get their job done, but true "safety architects" create an inspiring vision that leaders want to engage with.

A "simple" hand hygiene campaign can significantly reduce infections and flu-like illnesses in the workplace, US researchers have found.

A NSW worker has failed to convince a judge that his employer is vicariously liable for the actions of a woman who injured his back while he performed first aid.