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The employer of a WHS risk manager, who was prosecuted for failing to finalise a risk assessment for an infectious disease, has successfully applied to enter a $950,000 undertaking to halt the proceedings against it, in relation to the same matter.

• EU commitment tops $932k after labour-hire worker struck; and
  
• WHS benefits of new hybrid vehicle highlighted.

A commercial construction and contracting company has entered into a $1.7 million enforceable undertaking that includes developing a process for collecting worker insights on safety, and implemented more than $1.6 million worth of additional health and safety rectifications, after the fatal crushing of a worker in 2019.

A PCBU is installing a GPS tracking and vehicle immobilisation system to lock out unqualified crane operators, and training supervisors on geotechnical ground conditions, under a WHS undertaking involving a crane-toppling incident.

• Duty holders fined $435k over missing controls, teen's injuries; and
  
• Low-spend EU accepted as multiple WHS charges withdrawn.

• Dual duty holders fined for traffic management failings; and
  
• Alleged PPE and hose failings result in $200k EU.

A PCBU that allegedly breached workplace safety laws, at the time of a fatality, by failing to fit its mobile equipment with sensors to prevent collisions with pedestrian workers, has entered a high-spend undertaking to avoid prosecution.

One of two company directors charged with failing to exercise due diligence, in relation to a fatal helicopter crash possibly linked to the pilot's alcohol consumption, has entered a WHS undertaking in lieu of prosecution.

Two PCBUs with shared WHS duties at a major mine have entered enforceable undertakings to avoid prosecution, in relation to an unintentional-blasting incident that forced mine personnel into refuge chambers.

A major NSW employer has avoided a WHS prosecution, involving a scissor attack that injured several workers, by entering a WHS undertaking, with a State-record spend of more than $3 million, aimed at tackling work-related violence through "whole of system thinking".