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• Five performance principles should underpin safety systems;
  
• PTSD presumption applied to another WA sector; and
  
• Injury premium rate cut by more than 5% in WA.

• Second company fined after sinkhole devours vehicles; and
  
• Presumptive cancer list to cover female workers in Tas.

A labour-hire company "induced or encouraged" a fly-in-fly-out worker to play the soccer game between shifts that injured him, a judge has confirmed, rejecting the company's claim that any inducement came from a third party and removed its liability.

• WHS reviews urged ahead of impending psychosocial changes;
  
• COVID-era return-to-work outcomes revealed; and
  
• Crane, hydration and zoonoses developments from WA.

• Dog-attack death triggers call for high-level WHS controls; and
  
• Transitional arrangements for HSRs expiring under WA's WHS Act.

• $300k safety fine sends warning on pre-start checks;
  
• Three safety Codes of Practice revoked in WA; and
  
• Comcare and WA safety awards open.

Three employers have been fined a total of nearly $1.5 million over an explosion and a structural collapse, including one company that failed to ensure customers transported dangerous goods in a safe manner, and a business that failed to properly instruct personnel on an unfamiliar work procedure.

Mining giant Fortescue Metals Group could be fined up to nearly $1.9 million, after being charged with dozens of counts of failing to produce documents, relating to alleged s-xual harassment at its sites, in the first case launched under Western Australia's version of the national model WHS laws.

This major OHS Alert report reviews all the need-to-know workplace health and safety and workers' comp developments from the past few months, including the passage of game-changing Respect@Work laws, numerous WHS amendments, COVID rulings, a state-first workplace manslaughter charge, and a record-smashing reckless conduct fine.

• Everyday object causes numerous workplace fires; and
  
• Unused seatbelt linked to one of three recent work deaths.