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• New WHS rules for heat flagged in climate change plan;
  
• Qld makes new safety regulations and deletes new safety rule;
  
• Alerts issued after string of mobile plant incidents and panel collapse; and
  
• Everything you need to know from April, May and June.

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.

• "Safety reset" agreed on after string of fatalities;
  
• PCBU allegedly failed to act on induction advice before death;
  
• Health department charged with OHS discrimination; and
  
• Prohibition notice numbers nearly tripled in ACT.

• Two-year exemption from new WHS clauses granted in NSW;
  
• Vic passes controversial cancer Bill, offers more WorkWell grants; and
  
• Alerts issued after fatalities, traumatic amputations and other incidents.

A regulator has defended its decision to accept WHS enforceable undertakings from two PCBUs in lieu of prosecution after a fuel fire at a public event, despite opposition from a number of the victims.

• Height and housekeeping fines top $200k after new round of charges;
  
• New environment statute with WHS clause introduced in NT; and
  
• Design and load skate alerts issued after crush incident.

In this comprehensive report, OHS Alert reviews all the major WHS and workers' comp developments from the first quarter of 2019, including the unprecedented jailing of company directors, the outcomes of the national WHS review, and significant legislative changes in every jurisdiction.

A supervisor has become the second entity to be convicted and fined over a FIFO worker's drowning, after he pleaded guilty to failing to follow his employer's safety manual or provide safe access to the workplace.

A man sleeping in a loading dock would not have been killed if a subcontractor had been inducted in and followed basic operating procedures, a regulator says. Meanwhile, an individual has been fined over a serious safety incident that could have been prevented at little cost.

The author of the review that led to the introduction of industrial manslaughter laws in Queensland has recommended that senior officers face up to "life" in prison for negligently causing the death of a worker in the Northern Territory. Meanwhile, the Territory has passed laws to protect emergency workers from violence.