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• Text-message harassment sacking upheld by full bench;
  
• Failed overseas packaging contributed to work death; and
  
• Safety category added to workplace awards in WA.

• Coronial inquest could influence restraint-guide overhaul;
  
• New WHS and IR Minister appointed in ACT; and
  
• Tasmania's safest employers announced.

An employer that strengthened mental health support for workers, and eliminated workers' comp claims in the process, is one of a host of businesses that have improved employee wellbeing through a government initiative.

• Border Force takes action against asbestos importer;
  
• CSI fined for electrical safety breaches;
  
• Another doctored high-risk licence discovered; and
  
• New ACT Work Safety Commissioner appointed.

This latest instalment of OHS Alert's long-running quarterly update series, dating back to 2004, outlines all the major safety and workers' compensation developments in every jurisdiction from January, February and March 2016.

• Twenty-minute siesta reduces work fatigue;
  
• Workers urged not to "thumb their nose" at drug policy; and
  
• Work Safety Commissioner thanked by Minister.

• Employer fined $140k after six apprentices left unsupervised; and
  
• New RTW and entry rules introduced in the ACT.

• Worker with fake crane licence fined for WHS breaches; and
  
• Safety briefs from five jurisdictions.

Workers' comp fraudsters have been put on notice, with a judge jailing one for two years and warning that custodial sentences need to be imposed in such cases to ensure the integrity of the workers' compensation system.

This update outlines all the most important workplace safety and workers' compensation developments from July, August and September, including one of the highest safety fines in Australian history, and legislative changes in every jurisdiction.