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A worker committed a serious safety breach in failing to ensure another worker's exclusion-zone breach was reported to management, a commission has found.

• Hazard register guides fatality-prevention;
  
• Employers fined $105k over crush injuries, major slurry spill; and
  
• Unguarded shredder amputates all fingers on teenager's hand.

• OHS-style duties announced for environment laws in Vic;
  
• Company and director fined over forged asbestos reports; and
  
• "Fit notes" now mandatory in SA.

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.

An employer has been fined $225,000 after a worker was fatally crushed by part of a 20-tonne truck, which had been propped on wooden blocks, while a regulator has urged PCBUs to review regulations for falling objects, after a worker was killed by a tailgate.

A coronial inquest into the death of a worker has recommended a seven-part safe system of work for mobile plant. Meanwhile, another coronial inquiry has warned against developing a cavalier approach to workplace safety over time, after a blasting fatality.

A self-proclaimed "big fish" in a workplace, which was issued stop-bullying orders, was fairly sacked because he chose to "buy in" to the matter and intimidated the victims, the Fair Work Commission has found.

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.

Toll Transport Pty Ltd has been handed one of the highest safety fines in Australian history, and the highest for a single OHS offence in Victoria, after a stevedore was run over and killed in the absence of a spotter.

A recent $180,000 fatality fine has sent a stark reminder of the need to provide extra attention and training to young workers, especially during the "silly season", a regulator says. Meanwhile, an employer has been fined after a truck with a defective alarm rolled backwards and killed a man.