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• Series of construction deaths prompts warnings in NSW and Qld; and
  
• Wall-chasing workers exposed to numerous health hazards.

A NSW employer and its director have been fined for failing to comply with a WHS Code of Practice and using an unsuitable ladder, after a worker suffered fatal injuries in a fall.

• Regulators raise alarm after amputations and falls;
  
• Qld regulators investigate string of work deaths and issue alert; and
  
• Vic issues battery, entanglement and asbestos alerts.

A worker has been fined for cutting a colleague's buttocks with a saw while engaging in horseplay, while a manager and his employer have both been fined after a worker was seriously injured while riding in a non-compliant forklift cage.

• Employer fined $285k over fatal explosion;
  
• High fine and costs for labour-hire worker's death; and
  
• Fatality caused by lack of training and risk assessment.

An employer has been convicted for his "foolhardy in the extreme" approach to safety, after a young worker moved within two metres of overhead powerlines and suffered a life-threatening electric shock.

An inquest into the death of a young tourist, who fell off a cliff while taking "fun photos", has found the tour company took no steps to ensure employee training on client safety was effective.

• Employer fined $140k after six apprentices left unsupervised; and
  
• New RTW and entry rules introduced in the ACT.

A young worker who injured her back when she fell off a ladder has been awarded $250,000 in damages, after a court found her employer breached scaffolding regulations in failing to require someone to hold the ladder.

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• Regulator releases details of $700k safety fine;
  
• WA welcomed to national rail safety regime; and
  
• Alerts issued after three fatalities and leg amputation.