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• Change management tool wins major safety prize; and
  
• Safety alerts issued in three jurisdictions.

Essential Energy has been fined $300,000 after a worker was electrocuted, while an individual has been fined $160,000 for WHS breaches after a worker was killed operating a vehicle without a protective device deployed.

Mandatory OHS management system audits are likely to be scrapped under a new framework for workers' compensation self-insurance in NSW.

• New fitness-to-drive and rail-safety guides apply soon;
  
• NSW calls for enforcement feedback, and issues fatality alerts; and
  
• Compensation laws for asbestos victims under review in Tas.

An employer has committed $430,000 to boosting safety leadership and other initiatives, in lieu of prosecution, after identifying a gap in "supervisory input".

A NSW employer and two workers have become the first parties in the State to be charged under section 31 of the harmonised WHS laws, after a non-worker was electrocuted.

A company director, who decided to proceed with height work after a shipment of safety rails didn't turn up, has been convicted of WHS breaches. Meanwhile, a regulator has warned of the risks of unloading pipes from trailers, after two serious incidents.

• Admin control fails to prevent fatality and fine;
  
• Ventilation code and WHS changes released for comment;
  
• NSW launches six-year work safety "roadmap"; and
  
• Correction on fatality.

Employers are being urged to enforce exclusion zones and improve their safety systems, following two electrocutions, a potentially fatal rock fall, a fall from a helicopter and a spate of other safety incidents.

• Forklift operator fined over death;
  
• Labour-hire business fined for unqualified safety assessment; and
  
• Drilling company fined $112k under NSW WHS Act.