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• Ladders are "the last option", PCBUs told after death;
  
• Rio Tinto's former HSE chief appointed SWA chair; and
  
• PCBUs' "attitudes" to affect WHS-undertaking decisions in NSW.

• Fatality fails to trigger proactive WHS efforts or COVID controls; and
  
• WHS enforcement activities highlighted in SA.

A tribunal has rejected a submission likening a worker's injuries from being run over in a work car park to an aneurism that happens to occur at work, but is not connected to employment in any meaningful way.

A judge has found there was a "compelling temporal connection" between a worker performing duties in the rain and the onset of his viral symptoms and incapacitating fatigue.

A government department has been fined $200,000 for workplace safety breaches, after a seven-year-old student sustained fatal injuries on a substandard ramp. Meanwhile, PCBUs have been reminded of licensing rules, after a crane overturned.

In one of the first judgments on a controversial compensation provision since the High Court dismissed a regulator's case on the issue, a worker has been permitted to "combine" his impairments from a back injury and a bowel condition.

• Utilise injury-causing data to prevent fatalities, says SWA;
  
• Fines excluded from SA's anti-harassment and bullying code; and
  
• Beware hazardous aftermarket modifications.

An injured worker has been ordered to attend medical assessments requested by his employer and a regulator, and to pay them costs for acting unreasonably and making ambiguous claims about future surgery.

The High Court has rejected a regulator's bid to appeal against a ruling allowing an injured worker to "combine" his impairments, and dismissed a PCBU's challenge of its $400,000 fatality fine and conviction.

• Beware medical certificate subscriptions;
  
• Workplace control measures for lung diseases must be reviewed: SWA; and
  
• Fit-testing breaches creating serious asbestos risks.