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Two John Holland entities have been fined $180,000 each for failing to train a vehicle operator or ensure the vehicle had adequate brakes, after a worker was fatally struck by the vehicle.

• Employer entitled to sack "strange", aggressive worker;
  
• Victoria commits to "presumptive" compensation after years of pressure; and
  
• Alerts issued after trailer death and heat-stress incident.

An employer that denied a truck driver procedural fairness when it sacked him for repeatedly speeding was a large enough company to have developed proper policies for dismissing employees, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An employer that failed to assign a spotter for a hazardous task has been convicted of OHS breaches, with the NSW District Court yesterday rejecting its claim that a worker's injury wasn't foreseeable because a similar incident had never occurred.

• Five options flagged for WA safety laws;
  
• New WHS regulations postponed in Queensland;
  
• Tasmania's safest employers and workers announced; and
  
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In contrast to two recent cases involving workers who were sacked for swearing, the Fair Work Commission has ruled that a worker who verbally abused a colleague following a forklift near-miss was unfairly dismissed.

• Returning expat miners could spread Ebola; and
  
• Paid domestic violence leave flagged for awards review.

• 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.

A company that created a "hidden danger" when it loaded a truck is more liable for a worker's serious injuries than the worker's employer, the NSW Court of Appeal has found in a $5.75 million damages case.