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• Overhead work warning reissued after crane death; and
  
• Two more parties enter WHS undertaking over teenager's fall.

• Start date locked in for OHS-style environment laws in Vic;
  
• Workplace fatality stats point to real people, SWA stresses;
  
• Half of fatal work falls are from low heights;
  
• Airbag and fire extinguisher alerts released; and
  
• Qld pumps another $1m into Mates in Construction.

A High Court full bench has reserved its decision on whether the harmonised WHS laws operate in conjunction with other legislation, like civil aviation laws, which previously "covered the field".

• Supermarket giant charged over itinerant's vehicle death;
  
• PCBU and director fined over five-finger amputation; and
  
• Cylinder-storage alert issued after explosion death.

In this major report, OHS Alert examines all the important work safety and workers' comp developments from the second quarter of 2018, including unprecedented regulatory action against a safety officer and eight other parties after a fatality, the High Court agreeing to determine the reach of the WHS Act, and numerous legislative changes.

• Presumptive PTSD compensation likely in Australian first; and
  
• WHS reviews announced and progress in Tas and NT.

The wishes of a killed worker's family underpinned a safety regulator's decision to accept a $968,000 enforceable undertaking (EU) in lieu of a category 2 WHS prosecution, the regulator's chief executive has told OHS Alert.

• OHS Regulations amended in Vic; and
  
• PCBU and officer charged with plant and document breaches after death.

• Anti-phone work safety policy applies to stationary vehicles; and
  
• WHS charges withdrawn with safety officer pledge.

• Electrical safety amendments commence in WA today;
  
• New WHS fines and asbestos-training rules introduced in ACT; and
  
• NT WorkSafe clarifies status of CFMMEU entry permits.