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Employers fined for ignoring Codes of Practice; Safety reviews urged after three horror incidents in 24 hours; OHS prosecutions to be fast-tracked in Victorian blitz; and South Australia offers $412K in OHS research grants.

Employer fined for traffic management failure after fork death; and Queensland employers urged to retain WHSOs under harmonisation.

A Queensland worker's death was caused by his employer's failure to act on a previous incident and replace an absent supervisor, the Supreme Court has confirmed, in ordering the company to pay one of the State's "biggest ever" safety fines.

Employers must not adopt a "narrow" view of the hazards they are obliged to address, a Queensland judge has ruled in upholding a safety fine issued after a teenage gymnast's death.

O'Farrell urged to lead the way on harmonisation; Queensland employer penalised after five-year-old injured at unfenced site; Western Australian employer fined for training and guarding failures; and New mine blasting guidelines and safety alerts released.

The Queensland Coroner in investigating the deaths of two miners and a police officer has likened the risk of commuting while fatigued to drink driving, and is urging the Mines Inspectorate to enforce fatigue-management standards.

A Queensland employer that allowed two labour-hire workers to perform a maintenance task that was meant for a specialist contractor has been fined $120,000, after one of the workers was killed.

Employer fined $100K over insulation death; Unsafe employer ordered to donate $30K to charity; Safety condition placed on Longford operation; and Unions lying about safety in recruitment drive, says AMMA.

SWA reports alarming spike in notified fatalities; NT WorkSafe issues alert after two fatalities in two weeks; Comcare prosecuting John Holland and Transpacific over fall deaths; and Employer charged over insulation death.