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• Employer fined for ignoring safe unloading process;
  
• NSW issues forklift safety warning; and
  
• Workers' comp changes commence in the ACT.

• New mine safety and heavy vehicle laws commence in Victoria;
  
• ARPANSA's safety powers expanded; and
  
• Red-tape reduction Bill passes in ACT.

A superior court has slammed an employer for its "cavalier disregard" for workers' safety and its "disdainful" response to a WorkSafe improvement notice, in rejecting its appeal against a $375,000 OHS fine.

• Worker with disability wins $170k in discrimination case; and
  
• Dangerous goods regulations extended in Victoria.

• Webinar on safety leadership coming soon; and
  
• Vic mine safety laws strengthened in light of Hazelwood inquiry.

The Victorian Government has confirmed that it is unlikely to adopt the harmonised WHS laws in their current form, and has vowed to restore "the cooperative environment previously created between WorkSafe, employers and unions".

• Queensland Labor promises to reverse WHS amendments;
  
• Abetz renews attack on Victoria's decision to dump Code; and
  
• Victoria launches inquiry into "cancer cluster".

Victoria's new Labor Government will review the State OHS Act and the WorkCover Authority's enforcement policies, while the Federal Government's Comcare Bill will face a hostile Senate after passing through the Lower House.

The CFMEU has questioned how a Grocon subsidiary can be fined just $250,000 over three deaths when the union was fined $1.25 million for "speaking out" on safety issues, while Federal Employment Minister Eric Abetz has accused the union of being "pro-drugs" on Victorian building sites.

A national employer reduced the number of provisional improvement notices issued by HSRs at its Victorian sites by 87 per cent, under a program designed to improve the relationship between safety reps and frontline leaders, the annual Safety Psychology Conference has heard.