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An employer has committed $100,000 to a manual handling study, while a second employer has promised to provide extensive safety training to its workers and supervisors, after they were both accused of OHS breaches.

A Victorian employer was entitled to assume a worker was capable of performing a managerial role without sustaining a stress-related psych injury, the Court of Appeal has ruled in dismissing the worker's damages claim.

Unions are using International Workers' Memorial Day today to warn of the link between "cutting red tape" and high work death and injury rates, while Coal Services NSW explains how a deadly occupational disease was eradicated through safety regulations.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is warning employers of the limited scope of occupational exposure limits (OELs), ahead of Monday's World Day for Safety and Health at Work focusing on the safe use of chemicals.

Workers in the clerical and retail industries lodged the most applications for stop-bullying orders in the first three months of 2014, according to the Fair Work Commission's first anti-bullying quarterly report.

Upgrading and creating new inspection checklists, and introducing them through a special smartphone app, has helped an employer in a hazardous industry improve its safety culture, according to the supervisor who played a big part in making the changes.

A report on an ongoing investigation into a serious dozer incident caused by heavy rain has outlined three safety lessons for employers, while a UK study has identified ways to reduce the risks associated with inadvertently operating excavator controls.

The Federal Government's new building industry Code includes less-prescriptive safety and rehabilitation provisions, and will apply retrospectively to enterprise agreements made from the end of this week.

Breaching an employer's zero-tolerance drug and alcohol policy isn't always grounds for dismissal, according to the Fair Work Commission, which has found a worker who smoked marijuana the night before a ferry incident was unfairly sacked.

Employer fined over forklift breaches after fatality; OHS Alert subscriber webinar coming soon; Work death toll falls; and South Australian safety awards open.