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A new Safe Work Australia report shows that 374 people died from work-related traumatic injuries in Australia in 2010/11 - nearly three times more than identified in an earlier report on the same period.

Comcare outlines policy on "accidental non-compliance" in draft; A thousand workers win workers' comp exemption in NSW; SA Greens progress firefighter Bill, call for "serious" anti-bullying laws; WorkCover NSW targeting glass businesses in wake of deaths, injuries; and Q-COMP releases new medical fees.

Employers should ensure third parties engaged to repair or replace equipment are relevantly qualified, a judge has urged in fining an employer $100,000 over an electrocution.

Widespread inspections urged after Sydney crane collapse; Work-related-fatality rate falls in July; Speedy highway upgrade "dispels" safety myth; and BP supervisors plead not guilty to manslaughter of 11 workers.

Many supervisors have a poor understanding of how to identify, assess and mitigate OHS risks, according to the ACT construction-industry inquiry, which urges employers to "move beyond the usual reactive focus on human error" when it comes to safety.

A worker's death in a trench collapse has highlighted how vital it is for company directors to maintain high safety standards when undertaking a project for friends, the NSW Industrial Court has stressed.

Transport-industry employers must carefully prepare and train their workers in emergency breakdown procedures, the Western Australian Coroner has advised, after a truck driver became stranded in the desert and died.

BP will pay the largest criminal fine in US history, while two of its senior supervisors face lengthy OHS-related prison terms, after pleading guilty to manslaughter and environmental crimes linked to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout, which killed 11 workers.

A Victorian manufacturer and a Queensland cruise ship company have been fined a total of $320,000 for guarding, training and Code breaches, after two workers were killed in separate incidents.

Reversing vehicles continuing to prove a major work hazard; and Essential safety news from five jurisdictions.