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• SWA to transform WHS reporting under 10-year plan; and
  
• New workers' comp laws coming soon in WA.

• Fatigued worker's unfair dismissal claim rejected;
  
• Unsafe ladder involved in incident months after ACCC recall;
  
• Alerts issued after deaths and other incidents; and
  
• Vic safety and Qld RTW award winners announced.

• Employers fined $470k over death and fatigue breaches;
  
• SA's presumptive cancer comp laws extended to volunteers; and
  
• Workers killed in nine industries in July, while five workers killed in 11 days.

• NSW employers fined 5% of maximum WHS penalty;
  
• Employers fined over double fatality and drunken forklift incident; and
  
• Healthy ACT workplaces could win free advertising.

A major mining company that introduced 12 "life-saving choices" under its fatality-prevention program has reduced its total recordable injury frequency rate by 21 per cent, but two of its contractors were killed in 2013-14.

• Exposure to vehicle exhaust damaging workers' DNA; and
  
• Fatality reports released as national work toll tops 135.

An employer that claimed an employee's fatal cardiac arrhythmia could not have been caused by work stress - because Australian workers would be "dropping down like flies" if work-related anxiety caused sudden death - has been ordered to compensate the man's family.

Workplace fatality rate creeping up in NSW; Presumptive cancer comp laws to cover all WA firefighters; and Queensland launches bullying and harassment review.

Victorian employers have been fined nearly $500,000 after an excavator operator was killed in a landslide, and other incidents, while a man has been fined for obstructing safety inspectors.

An employer has reported reducing its recordable injury frequency rate by 22 per cent, largely by targeting muscular stress injuries arising from manual handling.