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Health services will ensure remote workers are accompanied by second responders during emergency call-outs, and appoint experienced WHS advisors to oversee and support them, under review recommendations accepted by the Northern Territory Government.

Unions have called for reckless managers to be jailed for worker fatalities, and for offshore safety laws to be strengthened, after a major employer was handed a "paltry" fatality fine, and an investigation into an offshore death found the workplace wasn't covered by Australian OHS laws.

The Commonwealth's mirror Work Health and Safety Regulations have been amended so that only a dozen parts apply to workers and PCBUs - like the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - when they work overseas.

• FIFO Bill targets worker health and wellbeing;
  
• Qld partners with workplace suicide-prevention group.

An employer has introduced new engineering and administrative controls, and committed to leadership and communication training, after a worker was seriously injured by a power tong.

An employer has been fined after an employee, who hadn't been trained to identify the difference between safe and unsafe work areas, was seriously injured. Meanwhile, a regulator has issued a workplace cyclone warning, in light of an alarming forecast for the coming tropical cyclone season.

A worker has been awarded workers' compensation for tinnitus arising from the use of headsets, following a "common-sense evaluation" of the evidence, while another worker has been refused compensation for hearing loss incurred at employer-provided accommodation.

A worker has been awarded workers' compensation for a mosquito-borne disease, after a tribunal found her employer induced her to stay in the shoddy accommodation where she was bitten by the insects.

Employers must "empower" workers to choose not to answer their mobile phones while driving if they feel it is unsafe to talk on a hands-free device, or that pulling over is too risky, according to a road safety expert.

The HSEQ manager behind an award-winning injury prevention program has outlined six questions that employers must address before their safety systems can be effective.