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In an Australian first, WorkSafe Victoria has declared rollover or crush-protection devices as "appropriate means" for reducing the risk of death from quad bike rollovers, meaning employers are more likely to be prosecuted for OHS breaches if an unprotected quad bike crashes.

The Ai Group has called for Victoria to consider adopting the harmonised WHS laws during its new "expert panel" review of WorkSafe.

• Union official charged with hindering safety inspector; and
  
• Employers fined $130k for pinch-point and loading breaches.

A second employer has been fined $250,000 over the Melbourne wall collapse that killed three pedestrians in 2013, while WorkSafe Victoria has charged an employer with 10 breaches of the OHS Act relating to the 2014 Hazelwood coal mine fire.

• Workers warned against Monday "sickie";
  
• ACT creates new safety portfolio in cabinet reshuffle; and
  
• Alerts issued after vehicle, pump and crane fatalities.

• Australia crawls towards safer exposure standards;
  
• Regulator reveals strategies behind falling blood lead levels; and
  
• Fatality report and warnings released.

• Regulators raise alarm after amputations and falls;
  
• Qld regulators investigate string of work deaths and issue alert; and
  
• Vic issues battery, entanglement and asbestos alerts.

Victoria Police can start overcoming its notorious s-xist organisational culture, which includes cases of rape, by publicly acknowledging harm to employees and establishing a "redress scheme", according to an independent review of the organisation.

• Hazelwood inquiry finds link between fire and deaths; and
  
• Qld appoints new IR Minister to oversee safety.

Five weeks ago, Safe Work Australia reported the lowest annual traumatic injury fatality rate on record. Since then, Victoria has reported its worst month for workplace fatalities in more than a decade, the Queensland mining sector has reported its highest fatality rate since 1997, and the 2015 national work-related death toll has surged.