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• Employer should have "reshaped" site to prevent death;
  
• NZ removes "best practice" term from safety guides;
  
• Tasmania auditing hazardous road works sites; and
  
• Agencies release alerts and publications in four jurisdictions.

An employer has successfully appealed against a finding that a worker was entitled to three concurrent awards of weekly workers' compensation for three injuries.

The final quarter of 2014 was a busy three months for workplace health and safety and workers' compensation, with major legislative changes and other developments in all jurisdictions. What did you miss?

• VWA name scrapped, WorkSafe Victoria returns;
  
• NSW releases new draft mirror WHS Mines Code;
  
• Worker pleads guilty to 15 counts of injury fraud; and
  
• NSW and WA issue alerts and investigate incidents.

An employer's victory in a passive-smoking dispute has proved short-lived, with an arbitrator finding it had a "very poorly" functioning ventilation system, and ordering it to compensate a worker with lung cancer.

• Capped workers' comp premiums promised for large NSW employers; and
  
• Safety regulators release alerts and other publications.

The father of a worker who died in a car crash on her way home from work has been awarded nearly $500,000 in compensation, after the NSW WCC found the incident was covered by the State's restricted journey laws because of the woman's work-related fatigue.

New safety laws have taken effect in most jurisdictions this month, while some planned regulations have been scrapped.

• WHS changes affect NSW dangerous goods users from 1 January; and
  
• NSW told to protect workers from "Mr Fluffy" buildings.

A parliamentary committee has applauded the NSW Government's "positive response" to its inquiry into WorkCover's notorious bullying culture, but raised concerns over the lack of progress on proposed anti-bullying legislation.