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An employer has spent $245,000 on safety rectifications and committed a further $394,000 to other initiatives after a worker's foot was crushed in an unguarded machine. Meanwhile, another employer has committed more than $300,000 to safety undertakings and rectifications after a worker's hand was crushed.

A parliamentary committee will inquire into an abandoned fatality-related WHS prosecution, while the powers of South Australian HSRs will be aligned with other states, if initiatives moved by the Greens are passed.

A school has entered the first enforceable undertaking under New Zealand's new workplace health and safety laws - based on Australia's model WHS Act - after two students suffered lacerations in a scene simulating their throats being cut.

From 1 July, failing to preserve a serious workplace incident site will be an indictable offence with high fines, while limitation periods for launching safety prosecutions could be extended or bypassed, under a 30-page OHS Bill introduced in Victoria.

An employer has entered an enforceable undertaking worth nearly $1 million after a worker was killed between an elevated work platform and a concrete slab, while regulatory action taken against two major companies after the incident has been withdrawn.

A major employer has been ordered to pay a record $850,000 in fines and costs, after it failed to implement measures that would have prevented an intoxicated contractor from causing an "extremely dangerous" chemical spill, which injured two workers.

• Employer commits $1.2m to WHS EU and rectifications; and
  
• NSW cabinet includes new IR and Better Regulation Ministers.

In a rare case, a company's decision-making partner has promised to improve his traffic management system through a $127,000 WHS undertaking, after a worker was fatally struck by a moon buggy.

An employer has committed $113,000 to raising awareness of a contagious disease, after its vaccination system failed and four workers were exposed to and contracted the illness. Meanwhile, another employer has introduced a cutting-edge forklift management system under a $225,000 enforceable undertaking.

Employers that respond to a safety breach by developing officer due diligence strategies are more likely to be permitted to enter an enforceable undertaking instead of being prosecuted, according to employment lawyers.