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• New strategies needed for WHS-style anti-harassment duties; and
  
• Information-gathering powers added to SWA Act.

A court has thrown out a worker's claim that an employer negligently exposed her to workplace bullying, finding some of the alleged acts of bullying involved efforts to maintain safety standards and enforce lawful directions.

An employer that failed to carry out a "diligent investigation" into serious allegations against a worker has been found liable for his psychological injury.

• New work safety laws and codes to follow major explosion;
  
• Two new WHS Codes of Practice made in ACT; and
  
• Roll-away alert quickly followed by serious roll-away incident.

A commission has refused a worker stop-bullying orders in a case providing "lessons" on change management failures, which previously led to an organisation losing an adverse action case and being handed a $12,000 penalty.

A government employee was unfairly sacked for "bullying and intimidation" after voluntarily involving herself in a stranger's child custody dispute while she was on unpaid leave, a commission has ruled, finding her actions weren't bullying within the meaning of WHS laws or the dictionary.

A manager's evidence on the support a worker received has helped establish a reasonably arguable case against the worker's claim that alleged bullying and work stress caused her psychological condition.

A worker's police records "have a real possibility of shedding light" on workplace events he claimed aggravated his psychological injury, a tribunal has found in quashing his objection to his employer being granted access to the records.

Complying with a business's WHS duties includes ensuring workers working from home "are not forgotten" under the assumption they will "reach out if they need anything", a senior employment and safety lawyer has told a workplace mental wellbeing webinar.

A worker has failed to obtain stop-bullying orders against a colleague who, in a "single outburst", threatened him and told him he wasn't welcome in the workplace or at an upcoming work dinner.