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Employers have been urged to ensure their safety procedures are followed around the clock, after two related companies were fined over the death of a shift worker inside a machine. Another company has been fined for safety breaches after two vehicles disappeared down a 13-metre sink hole.

An employer could be fined millions of dollars, after being charged with nine workplace health and safety breaches that preceded a COVID-19 outbreak and 45 deaths. Meanwhile, a major defence contractor has been charged over a fatality, and a mining company has been fined over a death in an out-of-control vehicle.

• Gig death covered by workers' comp Act, family wins $827k; and
  
• Special WHS inquiry triggered by 12th agricultural fatality.

• Stop-workplace-harassment regime commences in WA; and
  
• Company fined for dozens of fatigue contraventions.

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

An employer breached safety laws in failing to ensure a plan to install edge protection around a newly created void was completed before workers were permitted to enter the area, a court has found in fining the company over a fall.

Employers have been reminded of the stringent safety laws that apply to electrical equipment, after a company was fined for allowing such equipment to be tested by unlicensed staff.

An employer that overturned its gross negligence conviction, relating to a labour-hire worker's full-arm amputation in an unguarded pinch point of a machine, has been fined $230,000 under amended charges.

A company has been fined after a workplace health and safety inspector observed two of its apprentices performing electrical work on their own. Meanwhile, Western Australia's average workers' comp premium rate has been increased for the second year in a row.

A major government employer has been fined for safety breaches that led to contractors inadvertently electrifying taps and other metallic objects in four houses.