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OHS Alert is taking a break for a few weeks, and we're leaving you with a list of our most popular articles from the last 12 months - a list dominated by our leading stories on managing the work-related risks of COVID-19, and high-profile court cases.

• Directors face high WHS fines over helicopter fatality; and
  
• Heat linked to hundreds of work injury claims.

• Families call for nationwide industrial manslaughter laws;
  
• Agencies directed to identify and assess asbestos in WA; and
  
• Asbestos found in imported forklifts and gas cylinders.

• Sit-stand desk workers reassured by findings on vascular conditions;
  
• Worker killed in vessel fall, others injured by grinders; and
  
• Trial device provides real-time silica dust measurements.

A regulator has withdrawn its six charges against an employer over a runaway vehicle fatality, after the employer committed $660,000 to installing collision avoidance systems and implemented new engineering controls across its fleet.

This article examines all the must-know workplace safety, workers' compensation and COVID-19 developments from July, August and September 2020, with highlights including a new WHS Code for the pandemic, the Dreamworld judgment, a record double-fatality fine and gross negligence cases.

The Federal Government has been accused of "inaction" affecting work safety standards, with Safe Work Australia's latest statistics report showing the national work-related fatality toll increased for the first time in more than a decade.

A PCBU allegedly failed to enforce safety standards and created a culture of non-compliance that led to a fatality, a judge has heard in upholding the business's WHS charge. However, the judge struck out a complaint against the business's co-defendant.

• Acts against WHS inspectors take union fines to $10.7m; and
  
• Workplaces targeted ahead of silica amendments in WA.

• Employers targeted in new COVID-19 testing regime in Vic; and
  
• National Safe Work Month kicks off tomorrow.