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Three safety regulators have outlined how to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injuries, choose the right respirator when working with harmful contaminants, and prevent Legionnaires' disease at work facilities.

• Five ways to help employees through a critical incident;
  
• SWA and Queensland release fatality reports; and
  
• Tasmania commits $435k to tackling farm deaths.

• Fatality-related switchgear warning directed at miners;
  
• Qld and Vic regulators investigating forklift and fall deaths; and
  
• WA launches safety resource for small business.

• Minister appointed to reverse Qld's WHS amendments; and
  
• Eight agencies issue safety alerts, publications and other information.

The Queensland Coroner has recommended that Australian Standards for mobile cranes be amended to address free-fall functions, after a worker was killed when he was struck by a section of a power-line tower.

The final quarter of 2014 was a busy three months for workplace health and safety and workers' compensation, with major legislative changes and other developments in all jurisdictions. What did you miss?

• Queensland Labor promises to reverse WHS amendments;
  
• Abetz renews attack on Victoria's decision to dump Code; and
  
• Victoria launches inquiry into "cancer cluster".

A coronial inquiry into the death of a Queensland worker, who was crushed in a forklift, has found his employer had no safety management standards at the time of the incident.

• Capped workers' comp premiums promised for large NSW employers; and
  
• Safety regulators release alerts and other publications.

New safety laws have taken effect in most jurisdictions this month, while some planned regulations have been scrapped.