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• Comcare launches anti-stigma resources, undergoes audit; and
  
• Amendment Bill kicks off workers' comp reforms in NSW.

Safe Work Australia has published a new model WHS Code of Practice for tower cranes, which does not include an explicit ban - recently applied by the ACT - on a hazardous method for lifting loads.

• Lendlease fined over exclusion-zone failure;
  
• Early planning and consultation urged after crane fatality; and
  
• Injury premiums up again in Qld.

• International treaties impact on workplace safety;
  
• OHS test forms part of new child employment laws in Vic; and
  
• SRC Directions amended.

• Contraband creating explosive WHS risks; and
  
• Workplace fatality highlights stored-energy hazards.

A major employer that has received two record-high workplace health and safety penalties, and could be fined millions of dollars over two road deaths, has been charged with more WHS contraventions, this time in relation to an ACT incident.

• Interaction of WHS laws and Australian Standards explained; and
  
• Fatigue breaches committed through 19.5 hours of work.

A major defence contractor has been convicted and fined $450,000 over a death, after a court heard it had been aware that workers were experiencing difficulties with what turned out to be the fatality-causing task.

The national model Work Health and Safety Regulations have been amended to expressly ban hazardous work processes and update references to certain Australian Standards.

A worker's "serious cardiac symptoms" at work involved a "sudden physiological change", meaning he suffered a compensable "frank injury", a tribunal has ruled.