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• Employer reveals diesel-reduction strategies;
  
• Employer fined for dangerous goods breaches; and
  
• SWA releases GHS Q&A.

• Employer fined $240k over drum explosion; and
  
• Dangerous goods updates from across the country and overseas.

An employer that failed to provide a forklift without blind spots has been fined over a fatality. Meanwhile, another employer has been fined for maintenance breaches resulting in a death, and a construction company has been convicted of ignoring prohibition notices.

• Good BBS tools tackle all types of safety incidents;
  
• Four online suppliers fined over unsafe equipment; and
  
• NSW safety awards open with new category.

An IR commission has identified a "conundrum" in the WHS provisions on work groups and health and safety reps, in granting a worker leave to intervene in an ongoing dispute.

Two employers, including one that covered a dangerous ventilation shaft with a thin layer of concrete, have been ordered to pay a total of $235,000 in fines and costs, after workers sustained serious limb injuries. Meanwhile, another company has entered a $160,000 safety undertaking after a customer was injured.

An employer has been found not guilty of fatality-related WHS charges, after a judge found its verbal instructions were adequate, and it wasn't foreseeable that a drug-impaired worker and his colleague would defy their safety training.

• Zika virus cases prompt workplace warning;
  
• Patient-sedation powers to improve paramedic safety; and
  
• Self-rescuer and collision alerts released.

Three of NSW's mirror WHS Codes of Practice have been updated, while a safety regulator has outlined how to prevent falls from mobile plant and vehicle collisions, following two serious mining incidents.

• Worker surveillance and accident laws progress in ACT;
  
• New safety advisory council kicks off in SA;
  
• NSW releases permanent impairment guides; and
  
• Qld launches WHS and RTW awards.