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• Inquiry targets in-vehicle fatigue-prevention technologies;
  
• First marine safety convictions made under National Law in NSW; and
  
• Regulators issue asbestos, forklift and earthquake alerts.

• High Court's HSR ruling applies to harmonised WHS laws;
  
• Draft Compliance Codes for asbestos released in Vic; and
  
• Heavy vehicle safety changes pass in NSW and agreed to nationally.

A mesothelioma victim's exemplary damages have been increased from $30,000 to $250,000, with an appeals court highlighting James Hardie's reckless indifference to the safety of its customers, and the fact that it knew from as early as the 1930s that asbestos dust was harming its workers.

• Employer fined $175k for fatal traffic management breach;
  
• PCBU faces up to $1.62m in asbestos fines;
  
• Prohibition notice demanded after second Opera House scare; and
  
• Alerts issued after death, and to prevent asbestos imports.

A 30-page Bill quadrupling maximum fines for failing to report safety incidents or preserve incident sites to more than $190,000 passed Victorian Parliament last night, despite the State Opposition arguing that there is no basis for the dramatic increases.

• National asbestos management regime failing;
  
• Fatality rate declines after horror three-month period; and
  
• Regulator targeting emergency plans and dust.

The Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads has been fined $175,000 for a category 2 WHS breach, after at least six workers were exposed to respirable asbestos fibres, and now face the threat of diseases like mesothelioma for the rest of their lives.

Retail giant David Jones has recovered 75 per cent of an employee's $435,000 mesothelioma award from a construction contractor.

A union has imposed asbestos-related work bans on the $200 million Sydney Opera House renovation project, and questioned the apparent failure of a major builder and an electrical contractor to identify the substance in their risk assessments.

• Employer billed client for asbestos controls it didn't use, fined $100k;
  
• One hundred safety breaches found in two-day mine blitz; and
  
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