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A WHS regulator has vowed to take a zero-tolerance approach, involving prohibition notices and hefty non-compliance penalties, in a new multi-sector blitz aimed at preventing a "false sense of security" around dust.

Employers have been urged to identify all powerlines at their workplaces, including around entry and exit points, after a company was convicted and fined over an electrocution. Employers have also been warned about the presence of asbestos in workplace fire doors, following exposure incidents.

• Senate unites against deadly workplace hazard; and
  
• Another state commits to WHS stone ban.

• Safety fine quadrupled after expert submission on dust; and
  
• New WHS clauses and Codes being enforced in ACT.

A major company and a state government are among the latest entities to formerly commit to phasing out silicosis-causing engineered stone and implementing a WHS ban on the substance.

An employer drove a pregnant worker to resign with its persistent and unreasonable insistence that she had to attend an independent medical examination (IME) before it could provide her with a "safe job", a commission has found, paving the way for her to seek an unfair dismissal remedy.

• Employer fined $551k over rock fall and hazardous rescue;
  
• SafeWork discusses Qantas case, targets high-risk sector; and
  
• New ASEA chief to have broader role.

• WHS phase-outs by IKEA and others fast-track end of deadly stone;
  
• Dozens of toilet-related WHS breaches found in SA blitz; and
  
• Worksite bystander killed.

• WHS minister reveals plan to push for engineered stone ban;
  
• Silica phase of "Clean Lungs" campaign launched; and
  
• Energy Australia Yallourn accused of more safety breaches.

• Senators seek to fast-track work safety provisions;
  
• SWA launches interactive WHS tools for two industries; and
  
• New review aims to reduce injury premiums in NSW.