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A worker's 1993 work-related heart attack was not the "effective or operative cause" of his 2020 death, a tribunal has ruled in finding intervening risk factors "snapped" the chain of causation.

A six-week "physical induction" to get new workers into the right condition to perform their role safely is one critical part of Australia Post's "endeavour" to prevent "predictable" injuries.

The Commonwealth has become the latest WHS jurisdiction to explicitly ban the uncontrolled processing of engineered stone products, under one of a range of changes made by a new legislative instrument.

Eliminating physical hazards will not eliminate musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), a leading ergonomics researcher has warned, challenging how WHS practitioners often conceptualise and implement risk management programs for the widespread safety issue.

Significant amendments were made to workplace health and safety laws in every Australian jurisdiction in the third quarter of 2023, including many increasing penalties and making it easier to prosecute duty holders. This major report - the only one of its kind in the country - examines all the need-to-know legislative changes, workers' compensation developments and court decisions from July, August and September.

A worker suffered psychological injuries from bored colleagues targeting her to "pass the time", according to a judgment that also condemns a major employer for traumatising the vulnerable worker in a liability "witch hunt".

With the focus of National Safe Work Month shifting to vulnerable workers like the young and inexperienced this week, a compensation lawyer has highlighted the plight of a teenage worker who was injured twice in one day, including by being shot in the head by a nail gun.

A worker's bid for stop-bullying orders has been dismissed after the alleged bullies - from a safety regulator - agreed to 13 "restrictions" preventing them from interacting with him in future.

• Fabricator and designer both charged over Curtin fatality; and
  
• Boland announced as Safe Work Australia CEO.

Unsafe job demands are the most common psychosocial hazards in Australian workplaces, and employers must explore multiple measures to safeguard against the risk to a reasonably practicable extent, a Comcare director says.