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An equipment hire company and its director have been handed record-shattering WHS fines totalling more than $1 million, after a worker was killed inside the "strike radius" of mobile plant. Meanwhile, a regulator has confirmed it is still prosecuting a business and an officer over another fatality, despite the withdrawal of an industrial manslaughter charge.

A WHS prosecutor has been given the green light to pursue a business that was charged with recklessly causing a patron's death, but is now in liquidation, with a court finding the case isn't blocked by corporations laws.

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

• Director faces jail under recklessness charge; and
  
• Employer fined over poor safety culture and severe injuries.

• Safety-prosecution changes demanded after $1.5m fine imposed; and
  
• Workplace heat warning issued with concerning forecast.

An employer has been handed a $1.5 million fatality fine, in a workplace health and safety prosecution triggered by a union-requested review.

• Workplace manslaughter charges laid against related companies; and
  
• Safety compliance directives follow mobile plant incidents.

A global biopharma company has reduced repetitive strain injuries at an Australian site by 95 per cent, after implementing steps - under a broader comprehensive program - to mitigate the psychosocial risk factors from a repetitive task.

Portable standing desks can help fill the gap in strategies for tackling increased excessive sitting among the high number of workers who started working from home more because of the COVID-19 pandemic, health science researchers have found.

• "High reliability organisations" embrace "bad" safety news; and
  
• Shoddy electrician fined $100k after WHS referral.