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A new worker sustained an amputation injury after receiving a five-minute training session on a hazardous machine with an out-of-reach emergency stop button, a court has found in fining her employer.

• Reduce burnout risks with role modelling and detox: RMIT;
  
• WHS amendments commence on Xmas day in SA; and
  
• SWA releases labour-hire Know Your Duties tool.

An employer that required employees to access a machine by moving under it and opening heavy doors that swung down has been convicted and fined $200,000, after the doors fell and struck a worker, causing permanent brain injuries. Another employer has been fined for contraventions that included leaving keys in forklifts, facilitating unauthorised use.

Provisions for health and safety representatives and entry rights could be amended by a new Queensland WHS Bill, while a WHS blitz has found that every targeted business in one industry was breaching its health and safety obligations.

"Every single" incident of workplace harm is preventable and "a great deal of liability" circles company leaders who fail to proactively address safety issues, the head of a WHS regulator has told the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work.

Workplace safety is not a "grey area" and needs to be practised until it becomes the culture, workplace injury survivor and safety advocate Candace Carnahan has told the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, in Sydney.

• Safety fine quadrupled after expert submission on dust; and
  
• New WHS clauses and Codes being enforced in ACT.

The operator of the inflatable jumping castle that six children were using when they sustained fatal injuries at the Hillcrest Primary School in Tasmania, in December 2021, has been charged with a mid-level WHS offence.

• Employer fined $551k over rock fall and hazardous rescue;
  
• SafeWork discusses Qantas case, targets high-risk sector; and
  
• New ASEA chief to have broader role.

A local council that faced a maximum WHS penalty of more than $7 million, relating to an allegedly unsafe plant modification aimed at protecting workers from crocodiles, has been permitted to enter a $76,500 undertaking in lieu of prosecution.