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A Tasmanian electrician who lost two teeth in a punch-up on a work trip has failed in his bid for workers' compensation, after a tribunal found he started the fight.

Injuries sustained by a dump truck operator in a car crash during a 120km journey to work weren't work-related, a full Tasmanian Supreme Court has confirmed in rejecting an insurer's appeal.

Previous experience with an industry's machinery is no guarantee that a worker will remember or comply with safety requirements before conducting repairs, the Tasmanian Coroner has found, after a worker was fatally crushed by a slasher.

The Tasmanian Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Tribunal has upheld an employer's decision not to pay for a worker's knee replacement surgery, finding a fall at work did not accelerate her existing osteoarthritis.

In this article, OHS Alert highlights recent work health and safety developments - as well as new publications and upcoming seminars - from all Australian jurisdictions.

A Tasmanian worker met the requirement to give notice of an injury "as soon as practicable" when he told his employer he was in pain on the day the injury occurred, a tribunal has ruled in a workers' comp dispute.

Unions to step up worksite activities after fatality; WorkCover NSW investigates death and issues farm warning; Queensland issues flood safety guide and explosives alerts; "No email Friday" improves work health and wellbeing; and Did you miss our latest quarterly update?

In this update, OHS Alert outlines all the important workplace health and safety and workers' compensation legislative changes made in the final quarter of 2012. We also recap the most significant court and tribunal rulings and other developments in all jurisdictions.

Harmonised WHS Acts have commenced in South Australia and Tasmania, while in other jurisdictions new Codes of Practice have taken effect, and some transitional arrangements have expired or been extended.

Mirror WHS Acts take effect in South Australia and Tasmania in less than two weeks. In this article, OHS Alert points SA and Tas readers to the resources they need to prepare for the new laws, and looks at the ongoing transitional arrangements in other jurisdictions.