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• Workers' comp Bill extends benefits in Vic;
  
• Employer convicted for injury discrimination; and
  
• Victoria's safest employers and individuals announced.

An employer has been convicted and fined $80,000 after a worker fell three metres down an unguarded stairwell void, while a local council has entered a $120,000 enforceable undertaking after an employee's foot became entangled in a machine.

In a case highlighting the ongoing costs of unsafe work practices, a major employer has failed to recoup a $1.4 million injury payment through accident insurance.

• Three prosecutions send electrical-safety warning; and
  
• Alerts and guidance issued after fatalities and other incidents.

WorkSafe Victoria and the State Government have promised to improve the plight of injured workers with complex medical conditions, after the Ombudsman found scheme agents have been rejecting legitimate claims from such workers for financial reward.

• Senior employee fined over serious "horseplay" injury; and
  
• Victoria locks in quad-rebate date, and issues alerts.

• Two employers disregarded request for fall protection; and
  
• Cross-border safety program shifts focus to young workers.

• Which industry dominated record OHS-fine haul? and
  
• Employers promised $9m savings under new OHS Regs.

• High Court rejects Baiada bid in decapitation case; and
  
• Safety regulator debunks illness-cluster claims.

• Three injury myths busted by regulator; and
  
• WorkSafe launches rebates for quad crack-down.