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• Employer entitled to sack "strange", aggressive worker;
  
• Victoria commits to "presumptive" compensation after years of pressure; and
  
• Alerts issued after trailer death and heat-stress incident.

• 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.

• Four individuals charged over forklift safety incidents;
  
• Employer enters undertaking after dangerous goods stolen; and
  
• Workers' comp lawyer told client to lodge anti-bullying claim.

Victorian employers have been fined nearly $500,000 after an excavator operator was killed in a landslide, and other incidents, while a man has been fined for obstructing safety inspectors.

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.

Compensation cheat escapes jail, but suspended sentences now abolished; Don't forget about silicosis, warns VWA; Greens motion for firefighters with cancer defeated; and Emergency workers protected by new anti-violence laws.

Employers fined $100k over unsafe systems; SafeWork investigating whether girl's death involved WHS breaches; and Regulator issues hardened steel warning.

A recent OHS prosecution has driven home the message that regulators are prepared to take action against employers for safety breaches regardless of whether an incident has occurred.