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Poor adherence to safety regulations and exposure to diesel emissions - even at levels below recommended thresholds - have been linked, by two studies, to an increased risk of injuries and biological changes that can lead to cancer.

A PCBU has been been convicted and fined $230,000 for category 2 and 3 WHS breaches, in the second of two cases in one jurisdiction in just over a year involving silicosis diagnoses and heavy penalties across different industries.

Occupational hygienists, health experts and unions have joined to call for blanket bans on engineered stone products and a licensing scheme to oversee their removal, warning that WHS controls for these products can't fully protect workers from silicosis or cancer.

An organisation's WHS risk manager breached safety laws by failing - over a period of more than three years - to finalise a risk assessment for an infectious disease, a prosecutor has revealed.

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

An appeals commission has dismissed a bid for death benefits by the family of a worker who died from a heart attack while making a delivery. It upheld a previous ruling that there was insufficient scientific evidence linking workplace pollution to the worker's death.

A PCBU that unsuccessfully battled against its "prolix" WHS charges been fined $425,000, in relation to an incident where a confined-space worker fell into perlite powder and died from suffocation.

Employers can reduce the occupational risks to workers' reproductive health by reducing their exposure to heat, noise and chemicals, a global literature review has found.

A school payroll officer with "brain fog" and a respiratory illness has lost her bid for compensation, after failing to prove that mould in her workplace's air-conditioning system and other areas caused her condition.

A study spanning 20 years and examining "sick mines" has shown that poor safety cultures and substandard controls for two common hazards have a major adverse impact on workplace injury rates.