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An employer responded to a serious incident by introducing a "personal awareness tool" and other practical measures to prevent forklifts entering pedestrian areas, it has revealed in an article produced under the terms of a WHS undertaking.

An employer has committed to spending more than $500,000 on promoting truck safety and developing mental health tools, after a contractor suffered fatal head injuries cleaning a vehicle outside the designated area.

A company director has successfully argued his safety breaches didn't warrant the near-record fine imposed on him, with an appeals court finding he had been negligent rather than reckless. Meanwhile, a number of employers have been charged and entered undertakings after a child was killed and a young trainee fell six metres.

A PCBU's category 2 WHS charges have been withdrawn after it agreed to spend nearly $520,000 on safety rectifications and regulatory costs.

• Legislative change and GPS tracking likely under NSW asbestos plan;
  
• Alleged asbestos offender enters $213k WHS undertaking;
  
• SafeWork NSW award winners announced; and
  
• Lightning protection wins resources safety award.

A government employer has smashed WHS undertaking records with its $10 million-plus commitment to rectifications and enforceable safety initiatives, after poor controls led to a number of workers being injured in violent incidents.

• Three hundred thousand reasons to comply with a WHS notice;
  
• Regulator issues fatality alert, investigates confined space death; and
  
• PC's mental health probe to examine workplaces.

A PCBU that allegedly breached the WHS Act in delaying vital repairs to plant ahead of a scheduled maintenance shutdown, has entered a safety undertaking with a $465,000 spend.

• Overhead work warning reissued after crane death; and
  
• Two more parties enter WHS undertaking over teenager's fall.

A labour-hire company that failed to conduct risk assessments at a host workplace has entered an OHS undertaking in lieu of prosecution, in a move that could affect the viability of the business in Victoria under the State's new licensing scheme.