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• Employer reveals diesel-reduction strategies;
  
• Employer fined for dangerous goods breaches; and
  
• SWA releases GHS Q&A.

• Employer fined $240k over drum explosion; and
  
• Dangerous goods updates from across the country and overseas.

Nearly every worker in three of Safe Work Australia's priority industries is exposed to at least one carcinogen, while the majority of workers in one sector are exposed to four or more, new research reports show.

Allowing workers to smoke in the workplace doesn't amount to "encouraging" them to take up or persist with the deadly habit, a tribunal has ruled.

A mining product advertised as a safe alternative to cyanide actually contains high levels of the toxic substance, and workers could be handling it without taking the proper precautions, a regulator has warned. Meanwhile, another worker has been diagnosed with black lung in Queensland.

Occupational exposure to particulate matter causes irregular heartbeat associated with cardiovascular mortality, a study has found.

A commission has upheld the dismissal of a worker who breached his employer's health and safety provisions by smoking outside a designated area.

A Federal inquiry into the re-emergence of work disease black lung has called for company doctors and safety inspectors to be trained to avoid "regulatory capture", after finding regulator and industry failures have exposed workers to the fatal illness.

Two employers have been fined a total of $690,000 for serious safety incidents involving labour-hire companies, with one resulting in the death of a 15-year-old boy. In the other, a migrant worker sustained extensive burns after being told he had to use an online dictionary to translate his work instructions into his native Mandarin.

• New dust regulations coming to Qld;
  
• Work-related death tolls spike; and
  
• Safe Rates Tribunal ceases today.