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A company that failed to provide a new employee with adequate PPE, or properly advise him on the flammable properties of a hazardous substance, has been handed a near-record workplace safety fine in Western Australia, after the young man suffered serious burns.

COVID-driven telework arrangements, which are likely to become permanent practices, are creating new psychosocial risks arising from "intense virtual team collaboration", and must be managed, according to a major study by Europe's peak work safety body.

• Beware medical certificate subscriptions;
  
• Workplace control measures for lung diseases must be reviewed: SWA; and
  
• Fit-testing breaches creating serious asbestos risks.

In a rare move, a magistrate has published her reasons for sentencing a PCBU - for failing to ensure borrowed equipment satisfied WHS requirements - to assist future prosecutions.

Successful workplace mental health policies must be backed up with open dialogue with workers that doesn't put the onus on them to be more resilient, but focuses on workable solutions and systemic change, a new major report on the legal profession says.

A man has been fined for category 2 and 3 WHS breaches and ordered to forfeit unsafe plant for destruction, after two of his patrons were seriously injured.

An employer has been fined $180,000, after its failure to control ignition points and flammable vapours led to three workers sustaining devastating burns with "lifelong effects" in an explosion.

Safe Work Australia has published a new WHS Code of Practice, revealed, in its latest statistics report, that the nation's work-related fatality rate increased two years in a row, and informed gig employers of their workers' comp obligations.

A major employer has been fined for failing to ensure three workers, who were required to walk dozens of kilometres in high temperatures, were trained to identify and control the risks associated with exposure to extreme conditions. One of the workers died.

A flight attendant has lost her claim that a national airline forced her to resign through its "combative" conduct in refusing to medically exempt her from its face-mask mandate for the COVID-19 pandemic.