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• VWA name scrapped, WorkSafe Victoria returns;
  
• NSW releases new draft mirror WHS Mines Code;
  
• Worker pleads guilty to 15 counts of injury fraud; and
  
• NSW and WA issue alerts and investigate incidents.

New safety laws have taken effect in most jurisdictions this month, while some planned regulations have been scrapped.

• Two more model WHS Codes replaced by guidance material;
  
• Qld promises presumptive cancer compensation for firefighters; and
  
• SA transitioning away from Workers Compensation Tribunal.

An employer that persevered with "weak" administrative controls after it was fined for safety breaches in 2009, has become the first entity to be successfully prosecuted under South Australia's harmonised WHS laws.

• Employers urged to comply with RTW codes;
  
• "Little failures" cause major safety incidents;
  
• SafeWork debunks myths on "disallowed" codes and height rules; and
  
• WorkCover SA getting new name.

South Australia's new workers' comp statute passed through Parliament today, while the State Government has revoked a WHS Code of Practice.

In this update, OHS Alert examines the most important workplace safety and workers' comp news from the third quarter of 2014, including Safe Work Australia's controversial decision to dump draft Codes of Practice in favour of guidance packages, and other legislative developments.

• Change in work hours caused compensable psych injury; and
  
• Premium cuts in SA unlikely without proposed reforms.

Safety month kicks off this week; and Queensland commits to national rail safety regime.

A court has rejected a former SafeWork SA employee's claim for $1 under the discriminatory-conduct provisions of the model WHS laws.