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Western Australian employer fined over death after string of drum explosions; Employers urged to train young workers to voice OHS concerns; Workplace flu vaccinations critical with epidemic looming; South Australian workers urged to promote OHS in online campaign; and Tasmanian safety awards open.

Some test and tag requirements and safety restrictions placed on apprentices will be removed under a proposal to reduce the administrative burden of Queensland's electrical safety regulations.

A worker who wasn't provided with personal protective equipment while using a hand tool has been awarded more than $850,000 in damages, after he sustained a permanent eye injury.

Safe Work Australia has published a guidance note on the known hazards of 16 chemicals, and how to determine when to stop exposing workers to them. Also in this article, manufacturers have been put on notice after a second SWA report found the sector has the highest workers' comp and incident rates for young workers.

A Queensland employer has entered a $192,000 enforceable undertaking, and spent $224,000 improving its flawed electrical permit-to-work system, after an apprentice received an electric shock.

A NSW project manager, who failed to implement a construction site safety plan, has become the fifth party to be fined over a workplace fall, which left an inexperienced worker with severe head injuries.

A survey of CEOs and supervisors in the Western Australian construction sector has found that mandatory pre-employment safety training is helping employers reduce their injury costs.

Employers are being urged to develop safe work method statements for tasks that require pedestrians to work near vehicular traffic, after four NSW workers were fatally struck by mobile plant in just over six months.

The NSW Independent Transport Safety Regulator (ITSR) has outlined new drug and alcohol requirements for rail safety workers, after a worker was convicted for diluting a urine sample. Also in this article, Queensland and Victorian employers have been fined for height and traffic-management breaches.

The Victorian abattoir whose OHS failings led to the death of an untrained worker in a knocking box, has been fined $380,000 over the fatality and another incident in which an employee's finger was amputated.