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A PCBU's incident-response plan should include processes for contacting safety regulators and the media, and establishing legal professional privilege, according to an employment and safety lawyer.

• Returning expat miners could spread Ebola; and
  
• Paid domestic violence leave flagged for awards review.

• Queensland's "one-stop" safety shop launches next week;
  
• Poor compliance found in workers' comp campaign;
  
• Queensland's safest employers and workers announced; and
  
• Jail times doubled for health-worker assaults.

A senior departmental officer has assured critics of the SRC Amendment Bill that Comcare has the expertise and resources to regulate complex, heavy industries.

An employer that failed to include a risk-response process in a machine's standard operating procedure has been fined nearly $50,000, after a worker was dragged into the machine and suffered severe leg fractures.

• SWA to transform WHS reporting under 10-year plan; and
  
• New workers' comp laws coming soon in WA.

Western Australia has tabled a draft mirror Work Health and Safety Bill, which, despite the State Government's long-term position on fines, includes the same maximum penalties as the model version of the laws.

• Fatigued worker's unfair dismissal claim rejected;
  
• Unsafe ladder involved in incident months after ACCC recall;
  
• Alerts issued after deaths and other incidents; and
  
• Vic safety and Qld RTW award winners announced.

A worker whose back injury resulted from repetitive manual tasks has been denied damages, after the Queensland District Court found there was no evidence that any wrongful act or omission by her employer contributed to her condition.

Employers will no longer be required to obtain AS/NZS 4801:2001 certification before tendering for Commonwealth construction projects, under a plan to free up the Federal Safety Commissioner to target unsafe companies.