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Construction giant John Holland Pty Ltd has been fined heavily for WHS breaches on Adelaide's South Road Superway construction project for the second time.

Bills establishing Australia's "most comprehensive" safety laws for building products and a labour-hire licensing scheme have been introduced in Queensland. The State has also passed laws cracking down on infection-control breaches and improving transport safety.

The Victorian Government has agreed, in principle, to adopt the national model WHS Act's broad definition of worker and consultation obligations, as recommended by a 2016 inquiry into the labour-hire sector.

A supervisor was unfairly dismissed for failing to personally report a safety incident involving an unqualified employee and an overhead crane, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, after finding his employer's policies were unclear on exactly how and when incidents should be reported.

• Fatalities drive new EWP training standards in SA; and
  
• Labour-hire plan targets workers' comp breaches in Qld.

A double amputee has been granted supreme court permission to sue nine employers for damages, five years after he sustained his catastrophic injuries in what should have been an exclusion zone.

Optus has successfully appealed against a $3.9 million judgment for a labour-hire worker, who developed chronic post-traumatic stress disorder after a co-worker attempted to murder him.

Employers have been urged to ensure their contractors have the skills to manage fatigue, after three companies were found liable for a worker's car-crash injuries and $1.25 million damages bill.

Two employers have been ordered to pay an injured worker nearly $2 million in damages, after a court found his tasks weren't rotated because he was paired with an older man who refused to perform heavy work.

Two employers have been fined, while another company and a manager have been charged, after a worker was scalped and another sustained serious burns in an explosion. Meanwhile, a regulator has called for employers to prioritise safety, after Victoria experienced its worst year for fatalities in nearly a decade.