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An employer that ceased trading, attempted to deregister, and set up a similar company after a worker was killed by a homemade machine, has been fined $800,000 over the death.

New OHS and equipment-related public safety regulations have been released for comment in Victoria, with the former adopting the global system for labelling chemicals and clauses providing consistency with the national model WHS laws.

• Cash retains WHS portfolio; and
  
• Workers killed in falls, crashes and drilling incident.

• Employers reminded of fatigue-related safety duties; and
  
• Regulator launches fall-prevention blitz.

• Regulator issues decibel warning;
  
• Dangerous goods Code being overhauled again; and
  
• Safety alerts released in three jurisdictions.

• "Fit notes" commence tomorrow;
  
• Commissioner appointed after WHS changes in Qld; and
  
• Current workplace traffic controls deemed unreliable.

• Modernised WHS laws postponed in WA;
  
• Blood-test Bill passes in NT; and
  
• Electrical, truck and fume alerts issued.

In a rare case, an employer has been fined for breaching OHS laws in relentlessly bullying a teenage apprentice, who now suffers from anxiety and depression.

• Qld boasts lowest premium, issues electric-shock alert; and
  
• Vic issues fatality warning and series of alerts.

Workers and trainees at Victoria's notoriously unsafe Fiskville Training College were discouraged from raising OHS concerns, while WorkSafe's regulation of the site was "anything but proactive", a parliamentary inquiry has found.