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Big changes to safety legislation and the FWC's first anti-bullying decisions rank among OHS Alert's most popular and important stories from the first quarter of 2014. Check this recap to make sure you didn't miss any news affecting your workplace.

Unsafe employer and workers' comp fraudster fined in Victoria; and Essential safety news from eight jurisdictions.

Premium breaches likely to attract maximum fines; and Design flaws continue to cause most OHS incidents, says NOPSEMA.

A worker who was told by his foreman to continue performing manual tasks immediately after he aggravated an ankle injury has been awarded nearly $550,000 in damages.

An employer that told a worker to "stop wearing a skirt", when he complained about his arduous manual handling tasks, has been found liable for the man's serious back injury.

An ACT worker whose foot was crushed by a telehandler has been awarded $700,000, after a Court rejected his employer's claim that he should have devised a safer system for transporting materials.

Employer wins first stage of cancer compensation dispute; WorkCover Qld explains best way to reduce compensation costs; and WorkSafe ACT targets workers' comp policy breaches.

WA employer fined after poorly trained foreign worker killed; Fines for building-defect breaches increased 10-fold in ACT; and Tasmanian safety regulators going through transformation.

Introducing a new workplace health and wellbeing project has proved tougher than expected for an ACT employer, but workers are starting to think and talk more about their health, according to co-owner Nicole Leishman.

A subcontractor who provided "perfunctory" inductions, and failed to demonstrate how to properly lift materials, has been ordered to pay an injured worker more than $330,000 in damages.