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• "Most egregious" injury fraudster jailed for 22 months; and
  
• High-risk licence fraud prompts reminder of WHS obligations.

• Complying with WHS consultation duties in outsourcing set-ups; and
  
• Allegedly unsafe chair attracts workplace safety charge.

• Employer fined $320k over reversing-vehicle breach and death;
  
• SWA launches stats site with case study, flags WHS changes; and
  
• Fair Work amendments to protect FDV victims from discrimination.

• Tougher spotter and guarding rules made for EWPs; and
  
• WHS blitz targets violence and manual handling in aged care.

• Safety fines top $600k after post-fatality breaches; and
  
• "Duty to provide work" overhauled in draft SA RTW Bill.

A worker could be jailed for up to five years, after being charged with recklessly endangering a colleague who was killed by a toppling forklift load. Meanwhile, a safety regulator has issued a special warning to "pranksters", after five workers sustained burns in a gas explosion.

• Falling-object prosecution avoided through EU; and
  
• New Code covers WHS and electricity compliance in WA.

• Employers baffled by large injury premium hikes; and
  
• Upselling "scam" breached electrical safety laws.

• Platform used by public collapses, employer fined; and
  
• No-go zones urged for National Farm Safety Week.

In this major must-read report, OHS Alert examines all the key workplace health and safety and workers' compensation developments from the second quarter of 2023, including a wide range of actual and proposed WHS amendments, a string of high-profile safety prosecutions, and concerns around surging burnout rates.