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• Employer entitled to sack "strange", aggressive worker;
  
• Victoria commits to "presumptive" compensation after years of pressure; and
  
• Alerts issued after trailer death and heat-stress incident.

In this update, OHS Alert examines the most important workplace safety and workers' comp news from the third quarter of 2014, including Safe Work Australia's controversial decision to dump draft Codes of Practice in favour of guidance packages, and other legislative developments.

Safety month kicks off this week; and Queensland commits to national rail safety regime.

NSW's dangerous goods regulations have been amended to require all tanker trailers to be retrofitted with roll-stability systems, while a Western Australian employer has been fined for unsafely storing dangerous goods. Also in this article, regulators in five jurisdictions have issued alerts after two workers were killed and other incidents.

Workers running the drug-testing gauntlet, survey reveals; Being crushed a leading cause of work deaths; Comcare tops RTW scorecard; and Presumptive cancer compensation promised for NT firefighters.

The Northern Territory is likely to become the next jurisdiction to introduce UK-style "fit notes" for injured workers, under one of 58 recommendations for change to its workers' comp scheme.

Avoid relying solely on workplace testing to tackle drug use, urges expert; and Essential safety news from five jurisdictions.

A new paper from the Northern Territory has questioned whether the costs of the model WHS legislation's provisions on principal contractors and audiometric testing outweigh the benefits.

Proposed and actual major changes to the harmonised WHS Acts, as well as surprising developments in the non-harmonised states, dominated OHS Alert's pages in the second quarter of 2014. Check out this review of all the most important safety and workers' compensation news from the three months to 30 June.

Another jurisdiction conducting double WHS review; Regulator targeting concrete companies as heavy vehicle trauma report released; Safety incidents cause one farm death per week; and Alerts and other safety news issued in four jurisdictions.