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A PCBU had a WHS duty to instruct a second, larger company to alter its workplace layout before sending its workers there, a judge has found in convicting the PCBU.

Two PCBUs, including one that failed to act on an engineer's safety advice, have been fined a total of $202,500, plus costs, after a worker was seriously injured in a fall through a void covered by plywood.

• Overhead work warning reissued after crane death; and
  
• Two more parties enter WHS undertaking over teenager's fall.

Three major employers that failed to implement a safe system for the seemingly straightforward task of emptying a large bin have been fined a total of $825,000, after a pedestrian was killed.

• Two duty holders fined after SWMS and first-aid breaches;
  
• New asbestos eradication chief has long safety history; and
  
• Did you see OHS Alert's 10,000th article?

The Federal Court has imposed and upheld right-of-entry fines totalling nearly $600,000 against the CFMMEU, and confirmed that a swipe card incident was a "worst category" safety breach, but declined to make a personal payment order against an OHS officer.

• Safety overhaul starts with building practitioner registrations;
  
• Alert issued over six refuge-chamber deaths; and
  
• Work crash report and equipment checklist released in NSW and WA.

The fact that a major employer was one of several PCBUs at a hazardous site did not make it responsible for the performance of all the duties set out in the WHS Regulation for that site, a superior court has ruled in rejecting a worker's damages claim.

• Code-covered contractors reminded of drug testing rules;
  
• $513m burden triggers renewed call for new asbestos plan; and
  
• Employer exposed worker to carbon monoxide.

• Dreamworld-inspired WHS changes likely by year's end;
  
• New WHS consultation rules commencing in ACT in four months;
  
• Victoria agrees to significantly increase energy safety fines; and
  
• WA alters workers' comp procedure.