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• COVID-19 hygiene training mandated for WA work sector;
  
• New worker killed by high-hazard task, PCBU fined; and
  
• Individual fined over powerlines injury, COVID-19 reduces penalty.

• PCBU enters $770k EU after crane failure on 51st floor;
  
• WHS fees waived under NSW's COVID-19 stimulus package;
  
• Fatality and other incident alerts issued in five jurisdictions; and
  
• New ACT WHS Commissioner appointed.

In this latest edition of our long-running quarterly update series, OHS Alert reviews all the key WHS news from the first three months of 2020, including everything you need to know on the COVID-19 pandemic, the findings on Dreamworld's dismal safety systems, caselaw from all jurisdictions, and legislative changes.

• Mirror WHS Bill debated in WA Lower House, industry concerned;
  
• Two duty holders charged with multiple WHS breaches after fall; and
  
• WHS regulator investigating two falls, one fatal.

A government department that was charged with category 2 WHS breaches after a motorcyclist crashed and died at a road works site, which wasn't set up on accordance with Australian Standards, has been permitted to enter a $1.4 million undertaking in lieu of prosecution.

In this much anticipated report, OHS Alert outlines all the major legislative changes and court decisions on workplace health and safety and workers' comp issues in the final quarter of 2019.

• WorkSafe files school-death charges, issues fatality and footwear alerts; and
  
• Workers killed in pipe, vehicle, height and electrical incidents.

A PCBU has been found not guilty of category 2 WHS breaches relating to a fatal road accident in a dilapidated work car.

• Workplace manslaughter and "crime scene" package launched;
  
• Fatigue tests trialled as truck fatalities surge; and
  
• PCBU and director charged over apprentice's electrocution.

Three employers including a repeat offender have been charged with safety breaches, after the deaths of a confined space worker and a backpacker. The latest development in the backpacker's case coincides with two Federal Court rulings on the employment status of workers at the site where she was killed.