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Both unions and a ministerial advisory panel have raised concerns over the sluggish development of Western Australia's mirror WHS laws, while a new report has identified the three greatest hazards faced by the State's mine workers.

• Register now for this week's health and wellbeing webinar;
  
• Employers and OHS managers invited to self-assess workplace safety; and
  
• Regulator prosecutes unsafe employer and targets noisy workplaces.

An employer has been fined for OHS breaches after a worker was crushed by an unbraced concrete wall, while another has been fined after a worker was dragged into a machine.

An employer that sacked a worker for exposing employees to a "potential catastrophic event" has lost its appeal against reinstating him, but a Fair Work Commission full bench has stripped him of an earlier compensation award.

A worker has been awarded more than $1.3 million in damages for schizophrenia and diabetes arising from a minor work-related hand injury, after successfully appealing to a full Supreme Court.

A NSW employer and its director have been ordered to pay more than $110,000 in fines and costs for illegally dumping asbestos and other waste, while another employer has been ordered to pay nearly $90,000 for exposing workers in a neighbouring industrial estate to harmful fumes. In Western Australia, an employer has been fined for allowing work to be performed with unsafe tools.

Two employers have committed to taking a total of 10 steps to reduce the risks of working with plant and equipment, after two machine operators were seriously injured in unguarded plant.

• Harmonisation of explosives laws examined in SWA paper;
  
• Qld releases new safety guides and scaffold warning;
  
• WA releases draft isolation guide and safety alerts; and
  
• NSW tweaks rules on explosion-protected plant.

• Employer's disregard for notices costs worker three fingers; and
  
• More CFMEU officials charged with entry breaches.

• First WHS enforceable undertaking in SA includes low spend;
  
• SA workers' comp disputes transition to new tribunal.