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An employer that was sued for damages after an apprentice suffered burns to 60 per cent of his body at a work birthday party has now been fined for safety breaches. Meanwhile, another employer has been fined after a worker was fatally crushed by a 1.2-tonne crate.

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.

• Stop-bullying orders confirmed;
  
• NTC proposes dangerous goods changes;
  
• More regulators warn of pre-Christmas safety risks; and
  
• Victoria commits $900k to workplace anti-violence plan.

In this article, OHS Alert outlines recent safety and workers' comp developments from NSW, Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the Commonwealth jurisdiction.

• Worker with fake crane licence fined for WHS breaches; and
  
• Safety briefs from five jurisdictions.

• Another fake high-risk work licence discovered; and
  
• Safety campaign expanded after hundreds of notices issued.

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• Regulator releases details of $700k safety fine;
  
• WA welcomed to national rail safety regime; and
  
• Alerts issued after three fatalities and leg amputation.

• Worker fatalities falling but bystander deaths up;
  
• Workers bear 74% of injury costs; and
  
• Western Australia's safest employers announced.

• Rio subsidiary and individual fined over death and fall; and
  
• WA reveals January 2017 plan for WHS Act and GHS.

• Lack of emergency procedures ends in death and fine; and
  
• Injured worker handed $4k bill for "unfathomable" claims.