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• 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.

With many employers still grappling with concepts around mental health, a safety regulator has identified 11 factors that affect the mental health of workers, and explained how to minimise the related risks.

A McDonald's franchisee has been fined $82,000 for the conduct of its managers, who made "sinister" and cruel threats to young workers relating to their WHS right to water and toilet breaks, and the right to take sick leave.

The new allegations of inappropriate workplace behaviour by Federal cabinet ministers have underscored the need for employers to recognise that workers might be victims of s-xual harassment even where there are no complaints, according to a senior lecturer in law.