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Mining employers have a range of options - under their fatigue and drug-testing policies - for improving workplace health and safety, including banning otherwise legal substances, the Queensland Mines Inspectorate has advised.

Risk assessments must address the "imperfect" procedures of other organisations in the supply chain, and must not be viewed as an administrative burden, the Victorian Coroner has stressed in a report on a stevedore's death.

SWA confirms sectors eligible for harmonisation delay; and Victoria and South Australia tweak fatigue laws, as firefighter Bill progresses.

South Australia to accelerate lower-premium laws; Workplace regulators investigating five fatalities; WorkCover WA increases medical fees and fines employer; and Q-COMP develops RTW site.

Facebook "plankers" sacked and fined for OHS breaches; WA employer fined for breaching fatigue laws - again; Safety laws tweaked to cover CHOGM volunteers; and Seacare releases confined spaces guide.

The maximum OHS fine recently handed to the manufacturer of the Malu Sara shows that regulators are willing to pursue upstream duty holders, according to lawyers, who have outlined five ways for plant manufacturers and suppliers to comply with safety laws.

Injuries caused by biomechanical demands, such as repetitive hand movements or heavy lifting, cost Australian business $361 million a year in compensation payments - and 99 per cent of employees are at risk, according to new Safe Work Australia research.

The Queensland Coroner in investigating the deaths of two miners and a police officer has likened the risk of commuting while fatigued to drink driving, and is urging the Mines Inspectorate to enforce fatigue-management standards.

Western Australian employers urged to install RCDs, and other WA news; Queensland releases guide to complying with OHS laws in flood clean-up; South Australians invited to apply for $50K safety-initiative grants; ACT safety chief reappointed; and Bullying-prevention guides, fatality alerts and other publications.