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• Defibrillators installed in 100 work vehicles, Tas updates COVID WHS tips;
  
• Site controller charged over customer's car wash death; and
  
• Entire supply chain targeted in vehicle safety campaign.

A workplace fatality, which led to a $250,000 WHS fine, occurred in circumstances where the contrast between the instructions provided to workers with limited English and what supervisors allowed to occur gave rise "to an understandable level of confusion about what was, and was not, permitted", an inquest has found.

• Two states step up workplace COVID compliance activities;
  
• Unionists accused of breaching site's COVID and WHS rules; and
  
• Did you miss our latest major WHS and COVID review?

• FIFO worker handed COVID fine for leaving room;
  
• Fatality fine and blitz send height warning to employers; and
  
• Asbestos-levy cut to save businesses $1.2m in Tas.

An inquest into a workplace bee-sting death has found: it had been incumbent upon the business to provide and train personnel in the use of EpiPens; and the killed man was a worker within the meaning of WHS laws, despite his purported "observer" status.

A coronial inquest into three fatalities at one workplace within six weeks has warned against using non-compliant platforms and requiring personnel to determine their own work and safety methods. It also found that it is "vital and necessary" to adhere to and audit hazard controls.

• Risk controls missing for plant-pedestrian interactions;
  
• New Workplace Safety portfolio established in Tas; and
  
• Workers' comp premium increases confirmed in NSW.

• Invest in "resilient OHS systems" for world safety day;
  
• SWA guidance extended to work on public roads;
  
• Comments sought on proposed WHS amendments in NSW; and
  
• Forklift-stability warning issued after two incidents.

• Workplace COVID controls still mandatory, employers reminded;
  
• "Respect" standards promised after SA harassment review; and
  
• Two states launch work safety awards, with COVID-control prize in one.

Australia's "only validated psychosocial risk assessment survey" has been relaunched on a free digital platform, under an initiative jointly funded by the country's workplace health and safety regulators.