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A PCBU has been fined $540,000 over a worker's death, after unsuccessfully seeking to reduce its penalty by arguing its electrical safety breaches did not cause the electrocution.

With National Safe Work Month starting this week, employers are being urged to host SafeTea chats, focus on issues like mental health and workloads, and provide safer workplaces for women. Employers have also been warned to properly maintain their defibrillators.

• One regulator charges another with recklessness after suicide;
  
• Host fined $350k over fatal impalement of labour-hire worker; and
  
• New national dangerous goods Code taking effect in Vic.

• Counterfeit components endanger workers;
  
• Ignored SDSs revealed risks that caused injury; and
  
• Organisation charged over vulnerable client's death.

Assigning "human supervisors" for drones will mitigate some of the emerging safety risks associated with the increasing use of the aerial vehicles in workplace settings, according to Europe's peak safety agency.

The authors of an Australian study say they have added to "reassuring" findings around the possible cancer links to highly prevalent occupational exposures to electrical fields and the use of electrical appliances.

• Company charged with endangering customers, after fatality;
  
• Inspectors issue hundreds of WHS notices in three-day blitz; and
  
• WHS resources for new audiometric duties in NSW released.

An employer's commitment to spending nearly $1 million on safety undertakings, including piloting a drone program to eliminate fall-from-height risks, is the "preferred enforcement option" over a worker's four-metre fall, a regulator has revealed.

A commission has agreed with an employer that the seriousness of unsafe conduct isn't assessed by reference to injury or damage but the risk created, but overturned its dismissal of a worker for a driving incident it mischaracterised as highly serious.

• SWA agrees to push for low exposure limit for common carcinogen;
  
• SWA makes hundreds of changes to chemical info system;
  
• WHS guides for pre-2004 buildings and roll-aways released; and
  
• Dreamworld-inspired WHS Code made in Qld.