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• Webinar on safety leadership coming soon; and
  
• Vic mine safety laws strengthened in light of Hazelwood inquiry.

Three Victorian employers, including one whose informal traffic procedures caused a death, have been fined heavily for safety breaches.

Unions are using International Workers' Memorial Day tomorrow to call for company directors to be jailed for up to 20 years for serious safety breaches, and for governments to crack down on workplace exposure to hazardous substances.

A company that restructured one of its worker's roles after she suffered an anxiety disorder has been found to have taken unlawful adverse action against her because of her mental condition.

• Similar OHS breaches lead to $100k EU and $20k fine;
  
• WorkSafe Victoria awards open; and
  
• FSC and NHVR announce changes for May.

Major legislative changes occurred in all nine Australian jurisdictions in the first quarter of 2015. This article examines these and other developments in work health and safety and workers' compensation.

A worker who fell to his death while performing an unfamiliar task while his director was away had been "left to his own devices" without a proper safety plan, the Victorian Coroner has found.

• Workers prosecuted for risking colleagues' safety;
  
• Employer fined after learner driver of faulty truck hits worker;
  
• Duty holders urged to ditch or modify unsafe quad bikes; and
  
• NSW and Qld issue chemical and fire alerts.

The Federal Court has rejected an injured worker's claim that his employer took adverse action against him by exposing him to a manager's abusive "dressing down" and failing to offer him a return-to-work plan.

An employer's fatality-related OHS fine has been increased by $200,000 on appeal, after the Victorian County Court found it failed to take basic precautions to protect pedestrian workers from mobile plant.