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• Don't overlook safety when budgets are tight, NOPSEMA warns;
  
• Heavy vehicle fatality rate rises sharply;
  
• Employers warned of high fines under Operation Austrans; and
  
• Time running out to register for OHS Alert webinar.

All parties involved in the transport of goods by road in Western Australia are now required to take all reasonable steps to prevent safety breaches, under the State's own version of the Heavy Vehicle National Law.

• Workers still exposed to hazardous lead paint; and
  
• Fatality reports and alerts released in four jurisdictions.

• Courts crack down on workers' comp and ad scams;
  
• Simplified FSC processes launched today; and
  
• Victoria re-establishing and expanding WorkHealth program.

Three Victorian employers, including one whose informal traffic procedures caused a death, have been fined heavily for safety breaches.

• Similar OHS breaches lead to $100k EU and $20k fine;
  
• WorkSafe Victoria awards open; and
  
• FSC and NHVR announce changes for May.

• Workers prosecuted for risking colleagues' safety;
  
• Employer fined after learner driver of faulty truck hits worker;
  
• Duty holders urged to ditch or modify unsafe quad bikes; and
  
• NSW and Qld issue chemical and fire alerts.

An employer's fatality-related OHS fine has been increased by $200,000 on appeal, after the Victorian County Court found it failed to take basic precautions to protect pedestrian workers from mobile plant.

• First-aid kits and driving plans required by Safe Rates order; and
  
• Discrimination inquiry examining obstacles faced by older workers.

Four companies have been ordered to pay a worker damages, after he was injured when he fell from an unfenced work platform, and sustained further injuries while travelling home from a related medical appointment.