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"Highly educated" OHS professionals will continue to have plenty of employment opportunities across Australia in 2015, while workers' comp specialists will be in high demand in Sydney, according to Robert Walters' latest global salary survey.

• Employers fined $265k after death and conveyor incidents;
  
• Males dominate injury stats as claims costs increase; and
  
• SWA releases information sheets for construction sector.

More than 260 international asbestos experts and other stakeholders have condemned claims from some manufacturers that some forms of asbestos are safe, and called for all Australian state's to adopt the ACT's plan to demolish asbestos buildings.

A new Safe Work Australia report has found that regulators conducted 135,000 workplace visits and handed out nearly 47,000 notices in 2012-13, but the number of reactive visits is decreasing in some jurisdictions.

Workplace fatality rate creeping up in NSW; Presumptive cancer comp laws to cover all WA firefighters; and Queensland launches bullying and harassment review.

NSW employers fined for construction and dangerous goods breaches; NZ employer fined after worker killed by dilapidated forklift; SWA and NSW release workers' compensation reports and guidance; New NOPSEMA boss appointed; and Australia's safest seafarers announced.

Do you have employees who never take sick leave? This isn't necessarily a good thing, the International Congress of Occupational Health in Adelaide heard on Friday.

WorkCover NSW should hold tardy insurers to account and restore injured workers' access to medical aids and other benefits for life, while lawyers should be paid for their involvement in work capacity reviews, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

Injured workers are "ill-prepared for the emotional experience" of the workers' comp system, and should be provided with peer support, a new report says.

Workers running the drug-testing gauntlet, survey reveals; Being crushed a leading cause of work deaths; Comcare tops RTW scorecard; and Presumptive cancer compensation promised for NT firefighters.