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An employer has spent $245,000 on safety rectifications and committed a further $394,000 to other initiatives after a worker's foot was crushed in an unguarded machine. Meanwhile, another employer has committed more than $300,000 to safety undertakings and rectifications after a worker's hand was crushed.

Cleanaway Operations Pty Ltd has been handed another record work health and safety fine, this time after a worker was injured in a chemical fire during a production trial.

• Remotely operated plant crushes workers, employer fined $210k; and
  
• Job seeker with mental illness wins $10k in discrimination case.

A safety regulator has issued four prohibition and improvement notices to three employers involved in an oil rig where a worker was killed two years ago.

An employer has been fined for failing to instruct personnel on the risks associated with a maintenance task, after a worker sustained head injuries, while a man who was bitten by a red back spider at work has been convicted for over-claiming nearly $15,000 in treatment travel costs.

A judge has reiterated the vulnerability of work experience students and fined a company $250,000, after a 17-year-old student's hand was crushed in a machine.

A sole trader has been handed a record fine under Queensland's mirror WHS Act, after an untrained casual worker was killed. Meanwhile, a dive company has been fined for safety breaches following the death of a UK tourist.

• Could workplace diesel exhaust be more hazardous than we think?
  
• Chain-of-responsibility sessions coming to four states; and
  
• Ministers appointed to oversee WHS harmonisation in WA.

An employer has been fined for failing to ensure a safe work method statement addressed a fatality-causing task - the performance of which was "at the outer level of foreseeability" by the employer.

A Queensland council has been fined $170,000 for failing to implement a safe system for reversing plant, after a fatality, while a UK worker has been jailed for focusing on her mobile phone instead of a vulnerable client, who died.