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• Duty holders fined over amputation on custom-made plant; and
  
• Electrical warning issued after three WHS fines imposed.

An award-winning PCBU responded to the safety and operational challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by implementing strategies across all levels of the hierarchy of controls, including a sign-language system to reduce the spread of respiratory droplets.

• Another duty holder charged with COVID safety breaches;
  
• Individual fined $50k for carbon monoxide failings; and
  
• Traumatic brain injury attracts penalties for PCBU, director.

With Mental Health Week just around the corner, a former swimming champion and TV host has issued a reminder on how important our state of mind is, and how crucial it is for employers to protect staff from psychological harm.

• Safety switch fault results in death and $300k penalty;
  
• Regulators lay charges and issue warning after crush deaths; and
  
• WHS regulator finalises probe into AFL club, issues fatality alert.

In the latest major case on a WHS provision for "resolving" disputes, a union and eight of its officials have been fined for right-of-entry breaches at an incident-strewn infrastructure project.

• Worker handed WHS fine for category-2 caring breaches;
  
• WA pumps funds into WHS transition; and
  
• Silica compliance improving, but air monitoring a concern.

• WHS incidents behind manslaughter prosecutions revealed;
  
• Recently prosecuted employer charged after falling-object death; and
  
• Another state mandates COVID vaccines for health workers.

• More duty holders charged with industrial manslaughter; and
  
• Respect@Work Bill passes without "positive" duties.

A European holiday worker, whose heat stroke death in Queensland resulted in two WHS prosecutions, was neither acclimatised to the area nor provided with adequate opportunities to escape from the sun, a coroner has found.