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An employer has been fined $650,000 after a worker died in a 12-metre fall from a platform that was completely unsuitable for purpose, making the fall almost inevitable. Meanwhile, a head contractor has entered a $175,000 safety undertaking after a worker was impaled on an obviously hazardous bar.

Three employers including a repeat offender have been charged with safety breaches, after the deaths of a confined space worker and a backpacker. The latest development in the backpacker's case coincides with two Federal Court rulings on the employment status of workers at the site where she was killed.

• Repeat offender gave unqualified worker key safety role; and
  
• Electrical licensing scheme aimed at safety compliance in Vic.

• BHP failed to mark unsafe work road;
  
• Parliamentary committee seeks feedback on NT manslaughter Bill; and
  
• Bill narrows labour-hire scheme with WHS test in SA.

• WHS duties of host and labour-hire PCBUs outlined in guide;
  
• New injury dispute system and "one-stop shop" announced in NSW; and
  
• New work injury rules for police and others pass in WA.

A PCBU and its director have escaped prosecution for fatality-related category 2 WHS breaches because of "evidentiary issues", but have been convicted and fined for failing to cooperate with the investigation into the death.

• Electrical warning follows fatalities and employer apology; and
  
• First entity fined under labour-hire laws with WHS requirements.

• Australia transitioning to new edition of GHS;
  
• CSIRO charged with four category 2 WHS breaches after explosion;
  
• Employer charged with failing to ensure the safety of at-risk patient; and
  
• Labour-hire scheme with WHS test revived in SA.

• ABCC launches safety and age discrimination cases;
  
• Labour-hire scheme with safety test commences in Vic; and
  
• Everything you need to know from January, February and March.

A company that paid a "contractor" an hourly rate could be held liable for his heart attack death, with a tribunal finding the man's past business patterns and work with other companies are not determinative of whether he was a "worker" when he died.