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• Counterfeit components endanger workers;
  
• Ignored SDSs revealed risks that caused injury; and
  
• Organisation charged over vulnerable client's death.

A coroner has expressed his "fervent hope" that companies and heavy vehicle drivers will cease the common dangerous practice of placing modified window shades on windscreens, in his inquest into the blind-spot-related death of a worker in a parking area.

• Company charged with endangering customers, after fatality;
  
• Inspectors issue hundreds of WHS notices in three-day blitz; and
  
• WHS resources for new audiometric duties in NSW released.

• WHS tool for extreme weather launched, applies to city PCBUs;
  
• Seven more safety Codes under review in NSW;
  
• WHS Codes made and varied in NT, new safety laws delayed; and
  
• Roll-away alert issued in SA.

• Worker sentenced for fatal recklessness after remittal;
  
• WHS initiatives build on Gayle's Law in SA; and
  
• Are you sending your ACT workers to legitimate asbestos courses?

A major employer should consider introducing a "points system" for workers' traumatic exposures, and prescribing welfare measures for workers under scrutiny to avoid "idiosyncratic or poor exercise of discretion", a coronial inquest into the suicide deaths of four policemen has recommended.

• Individual fined nearly $50k over five-metre fall; and
  
• More death benefits pursued for gig families.

• Defence faces more WHS charges, this time over two deaths; and
  
• Cancer compensation Bill follows Opposition pressure in Tas.

A dangerous machine's "confusing" control panel, combined with inadequate high- and low-order safety controls, contributed to the crush death of a worker that initiated a string of (ultimately unsuccessful) prosecutions, a coronial inquest has found.

A PCBU, with a "haphazard" approach towards its safety duty, has been handed a pre-discount fine of $600,000 after a precariously balanced 800kg excavator bucket fell from the back of a truck and fatally crushed a labourer.