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• Fatigued worker's unfair dismissal claim rejected;
  
• Unsafe ladder involved in incident months after ACCC recall;
  
• Alerts issued after deaths and other incidents; and
  
• Vic safety and Qld RTW award winners announced.

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.

• Exposure to vehicle exhaust damaging workers' DNA; and
  
• Fatality reports released as national work toll tops 135.

Workplace fatality rate creeping up in NSW; Presumptive cancer comp laws to cover all WA firefighters; and Queensland launches bullying and harassment review.

The first phase of a multiple coronial inquest into the quad bike-related deaths of nine Queenslanders - including three children and a number of workers - has found that "tragic incidents" involving the controversial vehicles often occur in benign conditions.

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

Workers' comp Bill clarifies cross-border conundrum in ACT; Employer breached terms of high-risk licence exemptions; and Alerts issued after high-risk work incidents.

Fate of draft WHS Codes unclear; Workers killed in crashes, falls and explosions in June; and Queensland issues fatality, mobile plant and sign alerts.

Thiess Pty Ltd has entered into its third enforceable undertaking - and escaped prosecution - relating to the incident-ridden construction of Brisbane's Airport Link, this time after a worker was killed.

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.