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Two PCBUs with shared WHS duties at a major mine have entered enforceable undertakings to avoid prosecution, in relation to an unintentional-blasting incident that forced mine personnel into refuge chambers.

Through the development of an evidence-based screening tool, and an analysis of complaints made to a WHS regulator, researchers have found the risk of workplace bullying increases through ineffective people management by supervisors, across nine major risk areas.

• Unprecedented COVID notice highlights broad WHS duties; and
  
• Main WHS risks and duties clarified after rise in electric shocks.

A WHS compliance program has found an alarming 75 per cent of duty holders in one sector did not have any controls in place to minimise the risk of falls, showing, in the words of a judge, that the height safety message is "not getting through to the industrial community".

• More death-benefit cases launched with calls for gig reforms; and
  
• Significant RTW amendments commencing in SA soon.

A former Federal Court judge has found a WHS regulator's post-inquest investigation into the murder of a nurse was "comprehensive and thorough", but flagged WHS amendments around prosecution procedures and information disclosures, given these matters caused considerable distress to the nurse's family.

A PCBU has been accused of breaching WHS laws in failing to provide personal protective equipment, like a duress alarm, to a s-xually-assaulted worker, in the latest of a series of major cases against duty holders in the disability services sector in South Australia.

• Model WHS amendments for silica flagged in RIS;
  
• Workplace violence and lead (Pb) targeted in SA; and
  
• SafeWork NSW's "Speak Up" app hits 10,000 reports.

• Express dust ban with $1.5m WHS fine introduced in SA; and
  
• New WHS guidance covers crystalline silica risks.

• Injured workers' entitlements restricted by new SA Bill; and
  
• New WHS Regulations subject to early changes in WA.