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Nine Victorian employers and an individual have been ordered to pay a total of nearly $250,000 in fines and costs for guarding, forklift, exclusion zone and asbestos breaches.

A South Australian employer, whose failure to guard a pinch point resulted in an amputation, has received a significant discount on its fine, due to recent changes to the State's criminal sentencing laws.

Severe weather and hand-tool warnings issued in NSW; ACT flags mandatory asbestos training and suspends high-risk licence; and NT adopts new dangerous goods driver training course.

A NSW employer and its director - who designed, manufactured and installed an unsafe hoist - have been fined more than $70,000, after two workers sustained serious injuries when they fell more than three metres in the hoist cage.

Employers urged to step up safety focus during October; Government told to tackle rising suicide and PTSD rates among soldiers; and Warnings issued after structure collapse and high winds.

A NSW employer that failed to provide designated walkways and crossing points around plant has been fined $120,000, after a supervisor's foot was crushed and partially amputated in an unguarded conveyor unit.

A worker who fails to wear PPE or properly isolate plant should face disciplinary action, but shouldn't be dismissed if the failures don't create an imminent safety risk, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A South Australian employer that allowed workers to use a forklift to open and close a faulty roller door has been fined $66,000 for safety breaches. Also in this article, an employer has been fined after a safety consultant it engaged failed to identify a pinch point on a press.

With workplace incidents often resulting from multiple causes, many employers are, unknowingly, just one causative factor away from a serious incident occurring on their watch, according to WorkCover NSW's engineering advice coordinator.

A South Australian employer that failed to guard a conveyor belt on a processing machine has been fined $66,500, after a worker's arm became caught in a pinch point, and he had to throw bins at the emergency stop button to stop the machine.