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Australia's "only validated psychosocial risk assessment survey" has been relaunched on a free digital platform, under an initiative jointly funded by the country's workplace health and safety regulators.

A company and its director have been convicted and fined, and issued WHS project and training orders, over the electrocution of an unsupervised apprentice, in a unique case, while two employers and a director have been charged over a switchboard shock.

A PCBU has unsuccessfully contended its fatality-related WHS charges should be dismissed for being "ambiguous" and "prolix". A superior court found the particulars of the charges clearly accused the PCBU of failing to ensure workers complied with safety rules for confined spaces, and creating the risk of almost certain death to any worker who fell because of that failure.

• GHS 7 webinar covers new rules on gases and eye irritants;
  
• Work buildings included in high-risk cladding ban in Vic; and
  
• Alerts on entanglement death and access duties issued in NT.

• Directors face high WHS fines over helicopter fatality; and
  
• Heat linked to hundreds of work injury claims.

• Families call for nationwide industrial manslaughter laws;
  
• Agencies directed to identify and assess asbestos in WA; and
  
• Asbestos found in imported forklifts and gas cylinders.

• Sit-stand desk workers reassured by findings on vascular conditions;
  
• Worker killed in vessel fall, others injured by grinders; and
  
• Trial device provides real-time silica dust measurements.

This article examines all the must-know workplace safety, workers' compensation and COVID-19 developments from July, August and September 2020, with highlights including a new WHS Code for the pandemic, the Dreamworld judgment, a record double-fatality fine and gross negligence cases.

A PCBU allegedly failed to enforce safety standards and created a culture of non-compliance that led to a fatality, a judge has heard in upholding the business's WHS charge. However, the judge struck out a complaint against the business's co-defendant.

• Employers targeted in new COVID-19 testing regime in Vic; and
  
• National Safe Work Month kicks off tomorrow.