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An employer took quick and "responsive" steps after a worker complained of not coping with her workload, but its efforts to mitigate her "unattainable" and injury-causing load came too late, a commission has found.

A WHS Code of Practice and regulations for elevated work platforms could be amended in Queensland, and the changes applied nationally, under recommendations from a coronial inquest into a renowned photographer's death.

• Employers fined for creating electrocution and forklift risks; and
  
• Guide to safe computer workstation set-ups released.

A WHS regulator has promised to respond to all workplace health and safety incidents with "firm enforcement and compliance actions", after a PCBU pleaded guilty to a fatality-related contravention. Another regulator has issued a carbon monoxide warning, following a recent death and in light of heavy rains.

A worker's fatal complications from car crash injuries, sustained on a journey from his workplace to his home, did not arise out of his employment, a court has found in upholding an appeal.

• WHS regulators stepping up enforcement, warn lawyers; and
  
• Guilfoyle's decision on mine explosion dismays union.

A man who carried out dodgy and dangerous work while posing as a licensed electrician on gig economy platform Airtasker has been fined $60,000. Meanwhile, a worker has pleaded guilty to breaching his WHS duty to a teenage colleague, after concocting a work plan that led to the youngster being crushed.

Three business partners have been fined for breaching their WHS duty to ensure imported plant - whose signage and instructions were all written in Chinese - was "without risks to the health and safety of any person".

A PCBU that failed to ensure bags of imported chemicals were properly labelled has been fined for WHS breaches, while a WHS regulator has issued a warning after four workers were injured in an explosion.

A safety prosecutor has been directed to pay a defendant's costs, after failing to prove beyond reasonable doubt the man breached his electrical safety duty in relation to equipment linked to a worker's death, which was the subject of a coronial inquest.