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An employer that responded to an identified hazard by replacing an engineering control with an administrative process has been fined for WHS breaches.

Female workers exposed to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are at increased risk of menstrual disorders and other health problems like fatigue, Chinese researchers have found.

• Union official charged with hindering safety inspector; and
  
• Employers fined $130k for pinch-point and loading breaches.

A study of a major lockout-tagout (LOTO) intervention in the US has found that businesses with a safety committee are in a much stronger position to reduce the risks associated with servicing and maintaining machines.

An employer has failed to convince the South Australian IRC that introducing a formal hazard identification and risk assessment process wouldn't have prevented a worker being crushed to death in plant.

• Regulators raise alarm after amputations and falls;
  
• Qld regulators investigate string of work deaths and issue alert; and
  
• Vic issues battery, entanglement and asbestos alerts.

A worker has been fined for cutting a colleague's buttocks with a saw while engaging in horseplay, while a manager and his employer have both been fined after a worker was seriously injured while riding in a non-compliant forklift cage.

Five Victorian employers have been fined for exclusion zone breaches and other safety failures, while a man has been convicted of workers' comp fraud. In Queensland, a company has been fined just $15,000 for a guarding breach, despite being prosecuted for similar offences twice before.

A number of NSW employers have been fined for dangerously modifying plant, failing to instruct employees to read operating manuals and other safety breaches, following a series of severe injuries, including two amputations.

Two employers that failed to amend a safe work procedure after updating instructions about isolating plant have been fined nearly $400,000 after a worker died.