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An integrated workplace system combining safety and injury prevention with health and wellbeing is key to preventing injuries and illnesses and ensuring return on investment, according to one of seven principles underpinning an impending major healthy work strategy.

As part of a major project aimed at helping employers redesign work to prevent psychological injuries - supported by three leading Australian universities - researchers have identified the main causes of the high psychological injury rate in the health sector.

A PCBU being prosecuted over a fatality has successfully challenged some of the allegations against it, including that it failed to adopt certain "common sense" safety measures to mitigate the risk of workers being crushed during maintenance tasks.

A PCBU that failed to clarify its plant isolation responsibilities to all personnel has been found guilty of WHS breaches, after a subcontractor died in a tank and his two would-be rescuers were seriously injured.

• Zero tolerance warning comes with new NSW WHS fines; and
  
• WHS Regulation for mines etc amended in NSW.

Qantas has failed to block two of four WHS charges alleging it engaged in discriminatory conduct towards an elected health and safety representative for taking actions relating to the cleaning of planes arriving from a COVID-19 hot spot.

Just two weeks after expressing her concern and dismay at the number of fall-from-height cases coming before her court, a judge has handed down another $800,000 pre-discount fine in a case where "glaringly" obvious risks were ignored.

• Workers resorting to alcohol in time of widespread stress;
  
• WHS projects tackle language barriers and burnout in NSW; and
  
• New WHS prosecutor appointed in Qld.

A major study funded by an enforceable WHS undertaking has identified which safety systems are best for assessing new and emerging risks associated with autonomous equipment at mine sites.

• Budget provides positive-duty resources, other safety measures; and
  
• Two performance and culture reviews announced for SafeWork NSW.