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Victorian agencies must do more to stamp out occupational violence in the healthcare sector, and ensure it's properly recorded, with current incident data describing punches and attempted strangulations as "mild" or "near miss", the State Auditor-General has found.
Two Victorian employers accused of OHS breaches have committed to spending $570,000 on developing detailed safety guidance for the construction industry, funding safety research and other initiatives.
All parties involved in the transport of goods by road in Western Australia are now required to take all reasonable steps to prevent safety breaches, under the State's own version of the Heavy Vehicle National Law.
John Holland has been fined $110,000 in the first of two safety prosecutions it is facing relating to the incident-ridden construction of the Brisbane Airport Link.
Employees of at least four Western Australian public sector agencies are at risk of inadvertently disturbing asbestos-containing materials because asbestos registers and management plans are out of date, the State Auditor General has found.