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A court has rejected a PCBU's renewed claim that as it was merely a "consumer" of electricity, and used the services of qualified persons for electrical works, it did not have an electrical safety duty and was not responsible for a shock incident.

In an Australian first, the practice of workers' compensation "claim farming" will be banned, under an Amendment Bill that also curtails the impact of a Queensland judgment on benefits for workers with terminal conditions.

• PCBU fined over obvious projectile risks and flying rock; and
  
• New WHS Regulations proposed for NSW demolishers.

A business owner will spend at least 18 months in jail - a record under Australian workplace health and safety laws - after being found guilty of the industrial manslaughter of his friend, in a case highlighting the broad meaning of "worker".

An employer has been fined for workplace management and control breaches, after a heavy object fell 160 metres from a 58-storey development in the heart of Melbourne. Meanwhile, a regulator has outlined safety control measures for hydraulic equipment, after an apprentice was killed.

A company and its director have been fined a total of $126,000, after their electrical safety contraventions were referred to a WHS prosecutor. Another company was recently fined for similar breaches, after an apprentice was nearly killed.

• New incident notification duties assented and explained; and
  
• Management company breaches WHS Act at warehouse.

A major employer breached its safety duties by producing inaccurate sectionalised diagrams for an infrastructure upgrade, a court has found in convicting and fining it $100,000. Meanwhile, Queensland's workplace safety awards have opened.

• HSE professionals "hold the negotiating power" in job market; and
  
• Temporary WHS prosecutor appointed.

An employer took quick and "responsive" steps after a worker complained of not coping with her workload, but its efforts to mitigate her "unattainable" and injury-causing load came too late, a commission has found.