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• Comprehensive safety reporting good for business, says SWA;
  
• Agencies release fatality report and alerts; and
  
• Recalled dangerous cables are still being used, regulator warns.

An employer that allowed a worker to wear gloves while operating plant has been fined $42,000, after her hand was dragged into the machine and her forearm was amputated.

• Don't overlook safety when budgets are tight, NOPSEMA warns;
  
• Heavy vehicle fatality rate rises sharply;
  
• Employers warned of high fines under Operation Austrans; and
  
• Time running out to register for OHS Alert webinar.

Three Victorian employers, including one whose informal traffic procedures caused a death, have been fined heavily for safety breaches.

John Holland has been fined $110,000 in the first of two safety prosecutions it is facing relating to the incident-ridden construction of the Brisbane Airport Link.

• Similar OHS breaches lead to $100k EU and $20k fine;
  
• WorkSafe Victoria awards open; and
  
• FSC and NHVR announce changes for May.

• Workers prosecuted for risking colleagues' safety;
  
• Employer fined after learner driver of faulty truck hits worker;
  
• Duty holders urged to ditch or modify unsafe quad bikes; and
  
• NSW and Qld issue chemical and fire alerts.

• SA employers promised SafeWork overhaul;
  
• Employers urged to get involved in international safety day; and
  
• Victoria releases asbestos guidance and saw alert.

Workers with hand-arm vibration syndrome who are exposed to workplace noise suffer greater hearing loss than workers who are exposed to noise but don't have the syndrome, Canadian researchers have found.

Two employers that were fined for OHS breaches after a worker's leg was amputated have now been ordered to pay the man more than $2.2 million in damages.