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• Victoria launches review into WorkSafe and TAC;
  
• Employer handed $24k bill after truck-loading incident;
  
• WorkSafe WA outlines safety rules for slinging loads;
  
• WorkCover NSW flags special Code for horse work; and
  
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"Highly educated" OHS professionals will continue to have plenty of employment opportunities across Australia in 2015, while workers' comp specialists will be in high demand in Sydney, according to Robert Walters' latest global salary survey.

A South Australian employer has been fined $78,000 for failing to train a young worker to isolate plant, after his arm was de-gloved while cleaning a valve. Also in this article, an unsafe employer and a workers' comp fraudster have been fined in Victoria.

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.

• Queensland Labor promises to reverse WHS amendments;
  
• Abetz renews attack on Victoria's decision to dump Code; and
  
• Victoria launches inquiry into "cancer cluster".

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

A recent full Federal Court decision confirms that an employee's poor performance or misconduct cannot be excused automatically by a medical condition, according to law firm Herbert Smith Freehills.

• Employers fined $450k over death after worker's concerns ignored;
  
• WorkCover psychiatrist lied to keep patients in hospital; and
  
• Agencies issue safety advice for new year.

A Federal Court full bench has upheld an employer's appeal against an adverse action claim, after it found a dismissed worker's misconduct wasn't linked to his depression.