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The Queensland Coroner has recommended that Australian Standards for mobile cranes be amended to address free-fall functions, after a worker was killed when he was struck by a section of a power-line tower.

• WA employer and worker fined over electrocution; and
  
• Dangerous goods users warned about lightning.

• Victoria launches review into WorkSafe and TAC;
  
• Employer handed $24k bill after truck-loading incident;
  
• WorkSafe WA outlines safety rules for slinging loads;
  
• WorkCover NSW flags special Code for horse work; and
  
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The NSW Coroner has outlined how practical jokes played on a young apprentice during his employment with a major company significantly contributed to his depression and subsequent suicide.

• Crane designer fined for safety breach in WA first;
  
• New harmonised mining and rail laws start in NSW; and
  
• New report shows work death toll much higher than predicted.

• Employer should have "reshaped" site to prevent death;
  
• NZ removes "best practice" term from safety guides;
  
• Tasmania auditing hazardous road works sites; and
  
• Agencies release alerts and publications in four jurisdictions.

• VWA name scrapped, WorkSafe Victoria returns;
  
• NSW releases new draft mirror WHS Mines Code;
  
• Worker pleads guilty to 15 counts of injury fraud; and
  
• NSW and WA issue alerts and investigate incidents.

A South Australian Supreme Court full bench has confirmed that employers should have known by the early 1960s that even "light" exposure to asbestos could be fatal.

In a case that should prompt employers to review how they treat and manage injured workers, the Northern Territory Magistrates Court has awarded workers' compensation to the family of a man who committed suicide after injuring his wrist.

A coronial inquiry into the death of a Queensland worker, who was crushed in a forklift, has found his employer had no safety management standards at the time of the incident.