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• AFL team Essendon charged with OHS breaches;
  
• SWA calls for comments on exposure standards; and
  
• Baxter reappointed SWA CEO.

A worker died from carbon monoxide poisoning while using PPE attached to a diesel air compressor that his employer hadn't maintained, a coronial inquest has found.

• Rio subsidiary and individual fined over death and fall; and
  
• WA reveals January 2017 plan for WHS Act and GHS.

A commission deputy president has stressed that PPE isn't fail-safe, in finding a worker's bacterial infection arose from exposure to faeces and vomit at work.

• SWA releases guide to managing carcinogenic diesel fumes;
  
• Queensland's safest employers announced; and
  
• Did you miss our latest quarterly update?

A NSW employer has been fined $67,000 after two employees, whose supervisors were in a management meeting, mixed incompatible dangerous goods and created a toxic gas that led to seven workers, including themselves, being hospitalised.

A major employer accused of WHS breaches has committed to spending more than $800,000 on developing an all-industry mobile app for managing contractors and on other initiatives, after already spending $400,000 on improving workplace safety.

An employer has been ordered to donate $120,000 to an environment trust after fumes escaped from an unattended tank and caused 15 workers from a neighbouring business to go home sick with headaches and nausea.

• Six "hidden" sources of asbestos exposure; and
  
• Worker fined for crane-safety breach.

• New mine safety and heavy vehicle laws commence in Victoria;
  
• ARPANSA's safety powers expanded; and
  
• Red-tape reduction Bill passes in ACT.