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Queensland approves 11 harmonisation Codes and amends 24 others; and NSW confirms January start for WHS Act, offers $550K in training grants.

An employer probably would have prevented a workplace death if it complied with an operator's manual and enforced the use of a stop button on a crane, the Tasmanian Coroner has found. Also in this article, two NSW employers have been handed safety fines after a derailed train ended up in a driveway.

A NSW employer has been fined $600,000 after its "inadequate" response to a storage-related fatality in 1996 resulted in another death.

Commonwealth passes harmonisation Bill; Police to "think twice" after workers' comp changes progress; New alert issued on OHS scams; and Employers plead guilty after guarding failure and truck fire.

Safety laws for trucking, firefighting and police sectors progress; and Essential safety news from around Australia.

WorkCover NSW should make it harder for injured workers to claim damages for permanent impairment, or risk the development of an unsustainable "lump sum culture", a PricewaterhouseCoopers report has recommended.

A NSW employer and its director have been handed hefty safety fines for "knowingly and deliberately" failing to provide fall protection for workers demolishing an eight-metre-high roof.

South Australia to accelerate lower-premium laws; Workplace regulators investigating five fatalities; WorkCover WA increases medical fees and fines employer; and Q-COMP develops RTW site.

NSW and Queensland's safest employers and workers and Queensland's best return-to-work professionals for 2011 have been announced.

Industrial deafness claimants must be able to prove their workplaces are "noisy" environments, a NSW arbitrator has found in rejecting a truck driver's claim.