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• Poor training leads to four-finger amputation;
  
• Employer failed to act on report before arc flash; and
  
• WA's safest employers announced.

A diesel emissions expert has defended his 2016 call for employers to get rid of older-technology diesel equipment to protect workers from lung cancer.

• Cash urges knowledge-sharing in safety-month launch;
  
• SWA releases key WHS statistics and fatality report; and
  
• Serious head injuries prompt portable jack and remote-work warning.

An employer with an informal safety system for moving stock with forklifts has been convicted and fined for WHS breaches, after two workers were struck by 80kg steel tubes. Meanwhile, an employer that relied on the "weakest form" of administrative control has been fined over a worker's permanent hand injury.

In a world first, medical experts have found a link between occupational exposure to oil mists and meningioma, a common benign brain tumour.

• Anti-violence policy standardised and mandated in Vic;
  
• "Fit notes" compulsory in the ACT soon; and
  
• LPG, amputation, roof and dust alerts issued in Qld.

• GM outlines noise-reduction strategies;
  
• Shooting victim convicted of workers' comp fraud; and
  
• Upside down guard causes finger amputation.

• Two-month plans and zero targets transform safety culture; and
  
• Safety alerts, guides and initiatives released in five states.

Investing in all the safety programs in the world is futile if your workers don't really believe they can be hurt at work, according to a safety motivational speaker who lost her lower left leg in a conveyor belt incident.

• Four sets of safety regulations and amendments commence;
  
• New sockets Standard released, while NSW crushes dodgy chargers; and
  
• Utilities-avoidance toolbox tools released.