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A company has been fined $1.2 million for dozens of breaches of the Heavy Vehicle National Law, after it was found to have "encouraged" drivers, through its remuneration structure, to disregard their fatigue obligations nearly 200 times in a five-week period.

A local council has failed to avoid prosecution over the drowning deaths of a father and son by claiming it was wrongly charged under WHS legislation.

A dysfunctional working relationship did not involve bullying exposing a worker to safety risks, a commission has found in rejecting the worker's bid for stop-bullying orders.

An employer breached its duty of care by failing to protect a worker from recrimination after he "dobbed" on a supervisor who assaulted him, a court has found, noting the employer's own policies foresaw the risk of psychological injury in such circumstances.

The workplace safety prosecutions of a company, a senior officer and three workers - relating to a death and a non-fatal incident - have been allowed to proceed, with a judge quashing an earlier decision to strike out the complaints for technical reasons, including that some were filed in the wrong court.

A worker was distracted by the death of a colleague, and fatigued from 26 consecutive days of work, when he was "cleared" as "fit" by an unqualified counsellor to perform a dangerous loading task, and then killed in an exclusion zone, a coronial inquest has found.

An organisation's WHS risk manager breached safety laws by failing - over a period of more than three years - to finalise a risk assessment for an infectious disease, a prosecutor has revealed.

A local government worker who was accused of breaching safety guidelines, and possibly WHS laws, has failed to overturn his dismissal for operating plant in a reckless manner and showing little concern for his own and others' safety.

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.

A PCBU and its director have failed to overturn their WHS recklessness penalties of $500,000 and suspended jail time, with a superior court highlighting the director's failure to exercise due diligence and his high moral culpability.