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An organisation's WHS risk manager breached safety laws by failing - over a period of more than three years - to finalise a risk assessment for an infectious disease, a prosecutor has revealed.

• Second company fined after sinkhole devours vehicles; and
  
• Presumptive cancer list to cover female workers in Tas.

An appeals commission has dismissed a bid for death benefits by the family of a worker who died from a heart attack while making a delivery. It upheld a previous ruling that there was insufficient scientific evidence linking workplace pollution to the worker's death.

A PCBU that unsuccessfully battled against its "prolix" WHS charges been fined $425,000, in relation to an incident where a confined-space worker fell into perlite powder and died from suffocation.

Employers can reduce the occupational risks to workers' reproductive health by reducing their exposure to heat, noise and chemicals, a global literature review has found.

A school payroll officer with "brain fog" and a respiratory illness has lost her bid for compensation, after failing to prove that mould in her workplace's air-conditioning system and other areas caused her condition.

A study spanning 20 years and examining "sick mines" has shown that poor safety cultures and substandard controls for two common hazards have a major adverse impact on workplace injury rates.

• Workers' comp fines increased by 1,000% in NSW; and
  
• SWA acts on WHS ministers' meeting with prohibition proposals.

A worker who claimed he was psychologically injured from being required to perform a hazardous task without personal protective equipment, and being bullied by managers and co-workers, has been denied compensation in a case examining the "perception of real events".

An appeals tribunal has confirmed that being exposed to sanitisers widely-used during the COVID-19 pandemic caused a worker to develop a compensable sensitivity to various workplace chemicals.