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An employer will spend $625,000 on a web-based induction platform and other safety initiatives as part of the first enforceable undertaking accepted under the ACT's mirror WHS Act.

• Fatalities highlight need for individual JSAs;
  
• Forklift complaints in log book ignored prior to death; and
  
• Anti-bullying claims rate falls despite recent prediction.

The Queensland IRC has found that lifting heavy boxes for just 10 minutes was more than enough time to cause a worker's back injury, and has ordered his employer to pay him compensation.

• Gap in palletiser fence leads to death and $100k fine;
  
• Alerts issued after deaths and other incidents in three states; and
  
• Western Australians urged to attend seminars on green WHS Bill.

An employer has introduced a "stop the job" safety policy as part of a $230,000 enforceable undertaking under Queensland's harmonised WHS Act.

An employer that persevered with "weak" administrative controls after it was fined for safety breaches in 2009, has become the first entity to be successfully prosecuted under South Australia's harmonised WHS laws.

• Go home on time to improve work-life balance and health; and
  
• VWA issues advice on exposure standards and harvest safety.

Inadequate guarding and lack of roll-over protection contribute to more than a third of work-related fatalities associated with unsafe plant or equipment design, a new Safe Work Australia report has found.

An employer that failed to assign a spotter for a hazardous task has been convicted of OHS breaches, with the NSW District Court yesterday rejecting its claim that a worker's injury wasn't foreseeable because a similar incident had never occurred.

• WorkCover embarks on Barangaroo-inspired safety blitz;
  
• Vic employers fined and placed on adjourned undertakings; and
  
• SA employer fined for failing to act on identified chemical hazard.