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Western Australia's average workers' compensation premium rate will be reduced for 2013-14, after increasing three times over the last two financial years.

In this update, OHS Alert revisits all the important OHS and workers' compensation legislative changes made in the first quarter of 2013. We also recap the most significant court and tribunal rulings and other developments in each jurisdiction.

FSC stresses importance of reporting near misses; and Essential safety news from Western Australia and four other jurisdictions.

Anti-discrimination package shelved as new Bill introduced; South Australia's average premium rate for 2013-14 announced; and New OHS ministers appointed in Western Australia and Northern Territory.

BHPB handed $430k bill for hazard-assessment breach that led to death; Hundreds of WA trucks stopped in dangerous-goods blitz; and Bill introduced to establish national asbestos-eradication agency.

Unions in Western Australia will be required to outline suspected breaches of the OSH Act and other laws in writing before they enter workplaces, if the Liberal Party retains power in the State election on Saturday.

A survey of CEOs and supervisors in the Western Australian construction sector has found that mandatory pre-employment safety training is helping employers reduce their injury costs.

Western Australian and Queensland employers have been ordered to pay more than $100,000 in fines and costs after one worker was seriously injured while loading a vehicle for an untrained driver, and another fell through an unprotected void.

WA employer fined for notification breach and drum explosion; Missing locking pin leads to work fatality; and Northern Territory introduces seven-year jail terms for assault of workers.

Heavy vehicle amendment Bill passes Queensland Parliament; SWA releases new WHS guides on health monitoring; Western Australian resources sector records first ever fatality-free year; and WorkSafe Victoria investigating fall death.