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A major employer has reversed its culture of safety complacency through a strategy focusing on five leadership styles, an OHS expert says.

Will your workforce be the same in 10 years' time, and do you want it to be? This is a question employers must ask themselves under their injury-prevention strategies, according to a claims management specialist.

Paring down workplace accidents to a single error or root cause prevents organisations and safety specialists from understanding the core reasons they occur, according to leading global safety management expert Professor Patrick Hudson.

• Four sets of safety regulations and amendments commence;
  
• New sockets Standard released, while NSW crushes dodgy chargers; and
  
• Utilities-avoidance toolbox tools released.

• Workers overcome by fumes after confined-space breach;
  
• Crane operator fined for power line shocks;
  
• Regulators join police in work safety blitz; and
  
• More than 1000 businesses consult SafeWork SA's educator arm.

• New safety regulator established by draft exposure Bill;
  
• OHS amendments streamline reporting duties in maritime industry; and
  
• New gas safety Regulations commencing in Vic.

Ninety per cent of shift workers are at high risk of accidents because they are regularly sleepy or fatigued during work, highlighting the need for smarter rosters and medical practitioners to do more to improve patients' sleep, according to a sleep and respiratory physician.

A type of benign eye growth caused by UV exposure, as well as wind and dust, points to a significantly increased risk of skin cancer, while an abnormal blinking condition that affects a worker's ability to work safely can be managed with the right treatment, two Australian research projects have found.

In a move that could inform other employers' anti-bullying strategies, the Australian Olympic Committee has promised to task an executive sub-committee with maintaining a new "cultural plan", and appoint a dedicated HR function to review complaint handling and codes of conduct.

Coronial investigations into six chainsaw-related fatalities have found they all could have been prevented by complying with the applicable industry code and Australian Standard, or using PPE.