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An employer has been convicted and fined $150,000, plus $32,500 in costs, for allowing an unqualified labourer to perform a high-risk crane task, which resulted in a heavy load falling on two workers.

• COVID increases usual work-related Christmas risks; and
  
• Alert issued over guardrail failure and fall.

Employers with outdoor workers or involved in industries like mining must identify potential emergency situations caused by severe weather or natural disasters, and should conduct seasonal risk assessments based on weather forecasts and local events, according to a WHS regulator.

• Site-specific induction overlooked before powerlines incident;
  
• High WHS fines for mines pass Tas Parliament; and
  
• SWA urges duty holders to eliminate common fatality risk.

• Thirteen White Island parties face $15.9m in work safety fines; and
  
• Comcare licensee at risk of $3m WHS fine.

A WHS regulator has been blocked from challenging the acquittal of a company that was charged after a newborn baby was killed, and another seriously injured, in hospital gassing incidents.

• Work safety incidents attract second round of fines;
  
• WHS changes creating new PCBU duties for quad bikes in Tas; and
  
• NSW workers invited to challenge past injury payments.

Highlighting the flaws in an expert report on job rotation, obtained by an injured worker, has helped two employers successfully challenge a ruling that they breached their duty of care to the worker by requiring her to perform repetitive tasks.

An engineering company and its director have been fined a total of $310,000 for breaching workplace health and safety laws by approving substandard structural drawings for a major excavation, which later collapsed.

• COVID crackdown includes workplace exemptions in SA; and
  
• Urgent WHS warning issued on imported plant.