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• National Cabinet endorses system "silent on" on fatigue and safety; and
  
• Inaugural WHS Prosecutor resigns.

A PCBU has been permitted to enter a WHS undertaking, with a minimum spend of nearly $3 million, in lieu of prosecution over a fatality in Queensland, which occurred prior to the State banning undertakings for alleged offences involving deaths.

A PCBU has been convicted and fined $400,000, after an investigation into an amputation incident revealed a series of safety failings, including that an induction video did not show a task as it was performed in practice.

A workplace's multiple safety failings, which preceded a new worker's death, and led to several safety prosecutions, included that an assumption was made that the worker was familiar with the site's practices because of his experience at a similar location, a new report on the incident shows.

• Confined-space breaches endanger apprentice, employer fined; and
  
• SWA releases RTW survey results, Qld issues fall alert.

A commission has overturned a decision to deny special terminal illness benefits to a worker with a dust disease, and criticised the decision maker for applying an arbitrary criteria for the "imminence" of death.

• Industrial manslaughter Bill introduced to NSW Lower House;
  
• New solar safety Standard commences with transitional provisions; and
  
• Offshore laws with "modified" WHS provisions pass Parliament.

In upholding two WHS improvement notices, a commission has stressed that a PCBU cannot delegate its duties around workplace facilities to a subcontractor, and found that one of the PCBU's submissions was "unsupported by the laws of physics".

Three PCBUs and a director that failed to comply with basic height and machine operation requirements have been handed penalties totalling more than $300,000, after workers sustained life-changing injuries.

A company director, whose reckless WHS conduct involved a degree of planning and reflection, has been handed a six-month suspended jail sentence, while his business has been fined $500,000, in the second case on a work incident.