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The employer of a worker who was kidnapped and murdered while performing duties after-hours has failed in its appeal against a $300,000 death-benefits order.

NSW's dangerous goods regulations have been amended to require all tanker trailers to be retrofitted with roll-stability systems, while a Western Australian employer has been fined for unsafely storing dangerous goods. Also in this article, regulators in five jurisdictions have issued alerts after two workers were killed and other incidents.

New workers' compensation regulations have taken effect in NSW and Queensland, while NSW's Finance Minister has claimed that returning injured workers to work by an average of just one day earlier could save the WorkCover scheme millions of dollars.

The benefits of adopting harmonised WHS Regulations for the mining sector will outweigh the costs, while safety standards could diminish under the alternative options, according to a regulatory impact statement.

Calls to eliminate major-project safety "cracks"; and NSW employer and director fined over amputation after interlock disabled.

An employer that was the last of a series of companies to employ a worker before she developed lung cancer, which was possibly caused by passive smoking at work, has won a temporary reprieve against a lump sum compensation order.

The first non-pecuniary penalty orders made under NSW's mirror WHS Act show that WorkCover and the courts are "receptive" to applications for such orders in certain circumstances, according to a lawyer.

The Tasmanian Government has vowed to strengthen its mine safety laws and inspectorate, while NSW has moved a step closer to harmonising its mine safety laws, and Western Australia has released another draft version of its guide to mine safety supervision.

A NSW employer that was acquitted of one OHS breach, but convicted of failing to "re-risk assess" an amended process that killed a worker and severely injured four others, has been fined $200,000.

An employer that failed to instruct a worker not to stand on scaffolding rails, even if it was "obvious" to workers not to do so, has been ordered to pay him $725,000 in damages, after he fractured his spine in a five-metre fall.