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• Safety overhaul starts with building practitioner registrations;
  
• Alert issued over six refuge-chamber deaths; and
  
• Work crash report and equipment checklist released in NSW and WA.

• First unsafe-cladding ban announced with $1.1m warning in NSW;
  
• Mandatory minimum safe rates launched in Vic;
  
• Fatigue management reminder issued by ONRSR; and
  
• Four WHS action plans released in SA.

The common experience of regretting workplace actions or decisions can cause workers to develop insomnia and more serious ongoing health problems, European researchers warn in a study highlighting the need for workplace training on coping strategies.

A major employer has demonstrated that it is within its right to implement advanced anti-fatigue technology across its vehicle fleet, despite a union's concerns they are unreasonably intrusive or pose health risks to workers.

• CoR myths busted in lead up to October changes;
  
• Safety laws for automated vehicles and telematics announced; and
  
• Vale, Terry Miller.

• Jailing sends asbestos warning to duty holders;
  
• Annual work-related fatality toll surges, alerts issued; and
  
• Ten model WHS Codes of Practice amended.

• Protecting product creates serious injury risks;
  
• Modification work and flammable liquids kill and injure workers;
  
• Fatality Free Friday tomorrow; and
  
• GPs told to be thorough on workers' capacity certificates.

• High Court ends battle against fatality pleas and safety fines;
  
• Full Federal Court rejects EA with split shifts; and
  
• PTSD crackdown announced in Qld.

A worker whose internet search led to her claiming she developed chronic fatigue syndrome from employer-provided vaccinations has been denied workers' compensation.

Three employers have been ordered to pay more than $1.5 million in safety fines and reparations, after two workers were killed - including one who worked nearly 200 hours in the two weeks before his death - and a geotechnical report was ignored.