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The national model WHS laws are being amended to clarify the reach of provisional improvement notices (PINs), increase penalties for WHS entry breaches and reduce "unnecessary regulatory burden".
The Fair Work Commission has rejected an employer's claim that its bid to revoke a January 2014 improvement notice should be determined based on its current safety standards.
Workers' comp fraudsters have been put on notice, with a judge jailing one for two years and warning that custodial sentences need to be imposed in such cases to ensure the integrity of the workers' compensation system.
An employer has been fined over an illegible safety sign and inadequate guarding, which was ultimately fixed for $400, after a worker's arm was entangled in a machine's rotating parts.
The NSW Government is making a regulation that will override a recent Court of Appeal decision on lump sum payments and potentially benefit about 6000 injured workers.
An employer's fatality-related OHS fine should include a component for general deterrence to alert the mining industry to the need to adopt adequate systems for inherently dangerous tasks "at all stages of the operation", the NSW Industrial Court has found.
