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A PCBU with "significant" WHS systems has been fined $525,000 over a fatality, involving its failure to implement a specific documented system of work for a task a worker was performing when he was killed.

• Platform used by public collapses, employer fined; and
  
• No-go zones urged for National Farm Safety Week.

A company has been fined $1.2 million for dozens of breaches of the Heavy Vehicle National Law, after it was found to have "encouraged" drivers, through its remuneration structure, to disregard their fatigue obligations nearly 200 times in a five-week period.

A court has affirmed that lump sum death benefits must be paid to the wife of a killed worker, rejecting the employer's claim the couple had been separated for two years and she was no longer dependent on his income.

PCBUs have been reminded of their WHS duties to children, after one entity was fined over a drowning death and another over a forklift joyride. Meanwhile, the ACT has launched a campaign against workplace violence, and reminded employers of the new WHS duty to report "actual or suspected" incidents of workplace s-xual assault.

• Employers must destroy certain COVID vaccine records in Vic;
  
• Untrained workers handed chemical job, employer fined; and
  
• Crane supplier charged with safety offences.

• More duty holders plead guilty to White Island breaches; and
  
• Carbon monoxide warning issued after forklift incident.

• Young worker's hand amputated after drop-saw incident;
  
• Queensland worker fatally crushed in tractor roll-over; and
  
• Angle grinder incidents on the rise.

A PCBU has unsuccessfully challenged its WHS conviction and $600,000 fine for failing to engage experts to assess the design of new leased plant, which fatally crushed a worker.

A major NSW employer beached Commonwealth anti-discrimination laws by sacking a worker with ADHD because of her disabilities, a Federal judge has found, rejecting the employer's claim that the termination was triggered by serious safety concerns and the worker's "dishonesty".